Charles Lamb

Lamb, Charles - 1775–1834, English essayist, b. London. He went to school at Christ's Hospital, where his lifelong friendship with Coleridge began. Lamb was a clerk at the India House from 1792 to 1825. In 1796 his sister Mary Ann Lamb (1764–1847) in a fit of temporary insanity attacked and wounded their father and stabbed and killed their mother. Lamb had himself declared her Read More...

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Charles Lamb and His Friends
by Will D. Howe. 364 pgs.

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Preface

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

I: London in the Eighteenth Century

2: Charles Lamb, the Brief Story of His Life

3: And Mary

4: The East India House

5: And Friends

6: Evenings at Home

7: His Letters

8: Charles Lamb and the Theatre

9: The Poet

10: Essays of Elia

II: Critic and Writer

12: Charles Lamb, the Man

Bibliography

Index
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The Complete Works and Letters of Charles Lamb
by Charles Lamb. 1124 pgs.

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Introduction

The Essays of Elia

The Last Essays of Elia

Preface

Rosamund Gray

Essays

Miscellaneous Essays and Sketches

Letters: Under Assumed Signatures, Published In "The Reflector"

Mr. H -----: A Farce, in Two Acts

Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Elliston

Mr. H -----: A Farce, in Two Acts

Act II

Act the First

Act the Second

Act the Third

Act the Fourth

Act the Fifth

The Wife's Trial; Or, The Intruding Widow

The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Farce

Act I

Act II

The Witch: A Dramatic Sketch of the Seven Teenth Century

Poems

Dedication

Album and Commendatory Verses

Sonnets

Translations From the Latin of Vincent Bourne

Letters

Chapter I: 1796-1800 Letters to Coleridge, Southey, Robert Lloyd, and Manning

Chapter II 1800-1809: Letters to Coleridge, Manning, and Others

Chapter III: 1809-1816 Letters to Manning, Coleridge, Wordsworth, And Others

Chapter Iv. 1817-1823. Letters to the Wordsworths, Bernard Barton, and Others.

Chapter V. 1824-1827. Letters to Bernard Barton and Others

Chapter Vi. 1828-1834. Letters to Bernard Barton, Cowden Clarke, Procter, Moxon, And Others.

Notes

Index to Letters
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The Essays of Elia
by Charles Lamb. 324 pgs.

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The Essays of Elia with an Introduction by Augustine Birrell

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Introduction

The Essays of Elia

Last Essays of Elia
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The Lambs: A Story of Pre-Victorian England
by Katharine Anthony. 264 pgs.

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Illustrations

Chapter I Lowly Born

Chapter II the Storm

Chapter III Probation

Chapter IV Social Success

Chapter V Literary Success

Chapter VI Companion on Parnassus

Chapter VII Electra and Orestes

Chapter VIII Women Must Work

Chapter IX the Furies

Chapter X How a Hero Look

Chapter XI Asylum

Chapter XII Turn of the Cycle

Bibliography

The Writings of Mary and Charles Lamb

Index
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In the Footprints of Charles Lamb
by Benjamin Ellis Martin. 193 pgs.

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The Ordeal of Bridget Elia: A Chronicle of the Lambs
by Ernest C. Ross. 236 pgs.

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Chapter I: In the Temple and at Blakesware (1764- 1774)

Chapter II: From the Birth of Charles to the Death of Mrs. Lamb (1775-1796)

Chapter III: "In Tenebris" and in "Double Singleness" (1796-1800)

Chapter IV: The Godwin and the Burney Circles (1800- 1805)

Chapter V: "Tales from Shakespear" (1805-1806)

Chapter VI: "Mrs. Leicester's School" and "Poetry for Children" (1807-1809)

Chapter VII: No. 4 Inner Temple Lane (1809-1817)

Chapter VIII: Covent Garden and Dalston (1817-1823)

Chapter IX: Colebrook Row and Enfield Chase (1823- 1827)

Chapter X: From Enfield to Edmonton (1827-1834)

Chapter XI: From Edmonton to Regent's Park (1835- 1847)

Index
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The English Romantic Poets and Essayists: A Review of Research and Criticism (Chap. 2 "Charles Lamb")
by Lawrence H. Houtchens, Carolyn W. Houtchens. 366 pgs.

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Abbreviations in References

1: William Blake

2: Charles Lamb

3: Hazlitt

4: Scott

5: Southey

6: Thomas Campbell

7: Thomas Moore

8: Walter S. Landor

9: Leigh Hunt

10: Thomas De Quincey

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A Literary History of England (Discussion of Charles Lamb is included in multiple chapters)
by Albert C. Baugh. 1678 pgs.

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List of Abbreviations

Part I: The Old English Period (To 1100)

I: Folk, State, and Speech

II: Anglo-Latin Writings

III: The Old Tradition: Poetic Form

IV: The Old Tradition: Popular Poetry

V: The Old Tradition: Courtly Poetry

VI: Religious Poetry: CæDmon and His School

VII: Religious Poetry: Cynewulf and His School

VIII: Religious Poetry: Poems on Various Themes

IX: Secular Poetry

X: Literary Prose

Part II: The Middle English Period (1100-1500)

I: General Characteristics of the Period

II: The Survival of the Native Tradition (1100-1250)

III: The Ancrene Riwle

IV: Anglo-Norman Literature

Early Latin Writers

VI: Wit and Wisdom

VII: For Their Soul's Need

VIII: The Arthurian Legend to Layamon

IX: The Romance: I

X: The Romance: II

XI: The Omnibus of Religion

XII: The Lyric

XIII: Richard Rolle and Other Mystics

XIV: The Alliterative Revival

XV: Piers Plowman and Other Alliterative Poems

XVI: Chaucer: I

XVII: Chaucer: II

XVIII: Other Contemporaries of Chaucer

XIX: The Beginnings of the Drama

XX: Ebb Tide

XXI: Looking Forward

Part I: The Early Tudors (1485-1558)

I: Links with the Past

II: The New Learning

III: The New World

IV: Satire

V: The Interlude

VI: Religious Prose

Part II: The Reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603)

I: The Elizabethan Lyric

II: Verse Narrative

III: Prose Narrative: Lylyand His Predecessors

IV: Prose Narrative: II. Greene and His Followers

V: Miscellaneous Prose

VI: Elizabethan Comedy

VII: Elizabethan Tragedy

VIII: Sidney and the Sonneteers

IX: Edmund Spenser

X: The Faerie Queene: the Spenserians

XI: Christopher Marlowe

XII: Shakespeare to 1603

Part III: The Early Stuarts and the Commonwealth (1603-1660)

I: Shakespeare under James

II: Jacobean Drama: I. Dramatists of the Old School

III: Jacobean Drama: II. the Satiric Group

IV: Jacobean Drama: III. the Romantic Playwrights

V: Caroline Drama, 1625-1642

VI: Seventeenth-Century Prose: I. Bacon and the Prose of Utility

VII: Seventeenth-Century Prose: II. Character Books. Autobiography. Walton.

VIII: Seventeenth-Century Prose: III. the Baroque Glory

IX: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: I. the Olympians

X: Seventeenth-Century Poetry II. the Moral Tradition

XI: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: III. the Academic and Courtly Tradition

XII: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Iv. Links with the Restoration

XIII: Milton, "The Last Elizabethan"

XIV: Milton's Latin Poems and Prose Works

XV: Milton in the Restoration

Part I: The Rise of Classicism

I: The Spirit of the Restoration

II: Literary Criticism of the Restoration

III: The Poetry of Dryden

IV: Minor Poets of the Restoration

V: Restoration Drama: I. Heroic Plays and Tragedies

VI: Restoration Drama: II. Comedy

VII: Patterns in Historical Writing

VIII: Types of Prose Fiction

IX: The Essay and Allied Forms

Part II: Classicism and Journalism

I: Eighteenth-Century Quality

II: The Critical Temper and Doctrine; 1700-1750

III: Defoe and Journalism

IV: Jonathan Swift

V: Addison, Steele, and the Periodical Essay

VI: The Drama, 1700-1740

VII: Traditions in Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry

VIII: Pope and His Group

IX: New Voices in Poetry

X: The Mid-Century Novel

Book III: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789)

I: Accentuated Tendencies

II: Opinions of Critics

Book IV: The Nineteenth Century and after (1789-1939)

Index
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A Survey-History of English Literature ("Charles Lamb" begins on p. 509)
by William Bradley Otis, Morriss H. Needleman. 688 pgs.

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Interesting Facts about the Survey-History of English Literature

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Ackowledgments

Preliminary

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Introduction the Formation of the English People

Chapter I: The Anglo-Saxon Period to A. D. 1066

Chapter II: The Anglo-Norman Period (106-1340)

Chapter III: The Anglo-Norman Period: the Medieval Romance

Chapter IV: The Age of Chaucer (1340-1400)

Chapter V: The Age of Chaucer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Chapter VI: The Fifteenth Century

Chapter VII: The Fifteenth Century: Popular Literature the Traditional Ballad

Chapter VIII: The Renaissance: the Beginnings

Chapter IX: The Beginnings of the Renaissance Edmund Spenser

Chapter X: The Renaissance: the Age of Elizabeth

Chapter XI: The Renaissance: the Age of Elizabeth

Chapter XII: The Renaissance: the Decline

Chapter XIII: The Age of Milton (1616-1660)

Chapter XIV: The Age of Milton: John Milton

Chapter XV: The Restoration Period: the Beginnings of Neo-Classicism (1660-1700)

Chapter XVI: The Restoration Period: John Dryden

Chapter XVII: The Augustan Age: the Triumph of Neo-Classicism (1700-1744)

Chapter XVIII: The Age of Johnson: the Decline of Neo-Classicism (1744-1784)

Chapter XIX: The Eighteenth Century: the Novel

Chapter XX: The Eighteenth Century: the Approach to Romanticism

Chapter XXI: The Triumph of Romanticism: the Poets (1798-1832)

Chapter XXII: The Triumph of Romanticism: the Prose Writers (1798-1832)

Chapter XXIII: The Victorian Age (1832-1885)

Chapter XXIV: Yesterday and Today

Appendix A: Supplementary List of Writers1

Appendix B: Alphabetical Guide to Miscellaneous Information

Index
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Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries: Being the Clark Lectures Delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1932
by Edmund Blunden. 215 pgs.

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PREFACE

Chapter I: AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHILDHOOD

Chapter II: THE NEW POETRY

Chapter III: CHARLES AND MARY

Chapter IV: THE NEW CRITICISM

Chapter V: ALMOST PERFECT SYMPATHIES

Chapter VI: ELIA

Chapter VII: ELIA'S FAREWELL

INDEX
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Fatal Women of Romanticism (Chap. 1 "The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale")
by Adriana Craciun. 328 pgs.

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Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and affected their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s and discusses the work of such well-known figures as Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. This examination of women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts exposes a far-ranging debate on sexual difference.

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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter I: The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale

Chapter 2: Violence Against Difference:Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Women's Strength

Chapter 3: The Aristocracy of Genius:Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette

Chapter 4: Unnatural, Unsexed, Undead:Charlotte Dacre's Gothic Bodies

Chapter 5: In Seraph Strains, Unpitying, to Destroy:Anne Bannerman's Femmes Fatales

Chapter 6: Life Has One Vast Stern Likeness in Its Gloom:Letitia Landon's Philosophy of Decomposition

Notes

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Index
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Romanticism and Animal Rights (Chap. 7 "The Slaughterhouse and the Kitchen: Charles Lamb's 'Dissertation upon Roast Pig'")
by David Perkins. 194 pgs.

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1: In the Beginning of Animal Rights

2: Grounds of Argument

3: Keeping Pets

4: Barbarian Pleasures

5: Savage Amusements of the Poor

6: Work Animals, Slaves, Servants

7: The Slaughterhouse and the Kitchen

8: Caged Birds and Wild

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

Index

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