Essays and Reflections

The text presents a broad selection of literary critic Harold Child's writings, including everything from critical essays to informal pieces.

Harold Child (Author)

9781107692589, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2013

198 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.22 kg

Harold Child (1869–1945) was a literary critic and writer who was prominent in the development of dramatic criticism, notably in his work on the history of Shakespearean production. Originally published in 1948, this collection appeared shortly after Child's death, and contains a memoir by noted Cambridge publisher Sir Sydney Castle Roberts (1887–1966). The text presents a broad selection of Child's writings, including everything from critical essays to informal pieces on topics such as 'Reading in Bed', exhibiting his lucid and engaging style. This is a highly readable book which will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Child, journalism and literary criticism.

Memoir S. C. Roberts
Part I. Critical Essays: 1. The triumph of Ben Jonson
2. The mystery of Yeats
3. Mr de la Mare's world
4. Leigh Hunt and his work
5. Anthony Trollope
6. Some story-tellers
7. Stevenson after fifty years
8. Adventures of a novel
9. What happens in Hamlet
10. John Fletcher
11. Thomas Dekker and the underdog
12. William Congreve
13. J. M. Barrie as dramatist
Part II. Christmas Reflections: 14. The good life - thoughts for Christmas
15. Of ivory towers
16. The age of gold
Part III. Ephemera: 17. The hotel that moved
18. A hill-top lunch
19. Tropical fauna: a tiger, a rabbit, and others
20. Three passes
21. The real Mrs Beeton
22. Meals in the train
23. La créatrice de camenbert
24. Metaphorically speaking
25. Tailors and men
26. Scientific comfort
27. The future of cartophily
28. Holiday reading
29. Reading in bed
30. The decay of the music-hall
31. What is France
32. Courage to believe.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]