Bibliography of Charles and Mary Lamb Scholarship,
1998-2010
Felicity James
CHARLES LAMB: POETRY AND EARLY PROSE
Anderson, Phillip B., ‘Rosamund Gray Reconsidered: Charles Lamb's Fiction and Its Contexts’,
Philological Review, 33.1 (2007), 1-14.
Chandler, David, ‘Lamb, Coleridge, and 'Dream[s] of Murder', Notes and Queries, 46 (1999), 30-31.
Fairer, David, Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle, 1790-1798 (Oxford, 2009).
James, Felicity, ‘“Sweet Is Thy sunny Hair”: An Unpublished Charles Lamb Poem’, The Charles Lamb
Bulletin [hereafter CLB], 127 (2004), 54-56.
Taussig, Gurion, ‘“Lavish Promises”: Coleridge, Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, 1794-1798’,
Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism, 6.1 (2000), 78-97.
------------, Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804 (Newark and London, 2002).
Woodbery, Bonnie, ‘Charles Lamb's “Confessions of a Drunkard”: Constructing Subjectivity Through
Context’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 22.3 (2000), 357-90.
CHARLES LAMB: DRAMATIC CRITICISM AND PLAYS
Burley, Stephen, ‘Lamb’s First Play: An Editorial Enigma’, CLB, 124 (2008), 48-60.
Craik, T. W., ‘Hogsflesh Revisited’, CLB, 112 (2000), 157-68.
Han, Younglim, Romantic Shakespeare: from stage to page (Newark and London, 2001).
James, Felicity, ‘Charles Lamb’, in Great Shakespeareans, 18 vols. (London, 2010), Volume 4: Lamb,
Hazlitt, Keats, ed., Adrian Poole.
Riehl, Joe, ‘Lamb's Drama Criticism of July 1823: A New Letter and a New Essay’, Wordsworth Circle,
30.1 (1999), 59-63.
CHARLES LAMB: PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS AND ‘ELIA’
Cale, Luisa, ‘Lamb and Visuality’, CLB, 114 (2001), 51-64.
Chandler, David, ‘“Elia, the Real”: The Original of Lamb's Nom de Plume’, Review of English Studies, 58
(2007), 669-83.
Chang, Elizabeth H., ‘“Eyes of the Proper Almond-Shape”: Blue-and-White China in the British
Imaginary, 1823-1883’, Nineteenth Century Studies, 19 (2005), 17-34.
Fang, Karen, ‘Empire, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb's Consumer Imagination’, SEL, 43.4 (2003), 81543.
Fish, Judith, ‘“A Merry Season to Us All. & Auspicious New Year to Our London”: Charles Lamb and
the Representation of a City’, CLB, 125 (2004), 2-9.
Gardner, John, ‘Caroline, Lamb, and Swellfoot’, CLB, 113 (2001), 2-22.
Gigante, Denise, Taste: A Literary History (New Haven, 2005).
Hull, Simon, ‘Charles Lamb, Elia, and The London Magazine: Metropolitan Muse (London, 2010).
------------, Spellbinding London: Charles Lamb's “Elia” and the Old Country House’, Studies in
Romanticism, 48.1 (2009), 121-13.
------------, ed., The British Periodical Text, 1797-1835 (Tirril, 2008).
------------, ‘The Ideology of the Unspectacular: Theatricality and Charles Lamb's Essayistic Figure’,
Romanticism on the Net, 46 (May 2007) [no pagination].
Lopate, Phillip, Essays of Elia (Iowa City, 2003).
Manning, Peter J., ‘Detaching Lamb's Thoughts’, Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 25.1 (2002),
137-46.
Monsman, Gerald, ‘Charles Lamb's Elia and the Fallen Angel’, Studies in Romanticism, 38.1 (1999), 5162.
------------, ‘Satiric Models for Charles Lamb’s “A Dissertation upon Roast Pig”’, Nineteenth-Century
Prose, 33.1 (2006), 1-27.
------------, Charles Lamb as the London Magazine's "Elia", Vol. 77, Studies in British Literature (New York,
2003).
O'Neill, Michael, ‘“Only What Might Have Been”: Lamb and Illusion’, CLB, 128 (2004), 96-107.
Parker, Mark L., Literary Magazines and British Romanticism (Cambridge, 2000).
Riehl, Joseph, ‘Mario Praz's Introduction to the Essays of Elia’, CLB, 133 (2006), 2-17.
Stewart, David G., ‘Charles Lamb’s “distant correspondents”: Speech, Writing and Readers in
Magazine Writing’, Keats-Shelley Journal, 57 (2008), 89-107.
------------, ‘Lamb’s London, Lamb’s Magazines and Nostalgia in the Present Tense’, CLB, 144 (2008),
102-113.
Sweet, Matthew, ed., Essays of Elia (London, 2009).
Wedd, Mary, ‘Elia the Academic’, CLB, 135 (2006), 71-81.
------------, ‘The Essays of Elia Revisited’, CLB, 108 (1999), 161-69.
Wheatley, Kim, ed., Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture (London, 2003).
Wu, Duncan, ‘John Scott's Death and Lamb's “Imperfect Sympathies”’, CLB, 114 (2001), 38-50.
CHARLES LAMB AND HIS CIRCLE
Barnard, John, ‘“The Immortal Dinner” Again’, CLB, 127 (2004), 70-76.
Beavers, Katy, ‘Poetical, Political and Personal Epistolary Thoughts of Charles Lamb and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge’, Coleridge Bulletin, 27 (2006), 56-64.
Beer, John, ‘Lamb, Coleridge and Blake’, CLB, 136 (2006), 105-06.
Chandler, David, ‘“There Never Was His Like!”: A Biography of James White (1775-1920)’ CLB, 128
(2004), 78-95.
------------, ‘Lamb, Falstaff's Letters, and Landor's Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare’, CLB,
131 (2005), 76-85.
Deane, Nichola, ‘Response to Crisis in Coleridge's Letters’, Coleridge Bulletin, 16 (2000), 24-30.
Erickson, Lee, ‘Charles Lamb on Romantic Reading and Social Decorum’, Wordsworth Circle, 39.3
(2008), 79-85.
Fairer, David, Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle, 1790-1798 (Oxford, 2009).
------------, ‘Happy Returns? Lamb, Gray, and Wordsworth’s Ruined Cottage’, CLB, 131 (2005), 62-75.
Garratt, Edmund, ‘The Early Friendship of Captain James Burney and Charles Lamb’, CLB, 122 (2003),
64-70.
Hughes-Hallett, Penelope, The Immortal Dinner. A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary
London, 1817 (London, 2000).
James, Felicity, ‘A Day in Heaven: Charles Lamb’s reading of The Excursion’, CLB, 149 (2010), 18-27.
------------, Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s (Basingstoke, 2008).
------------, ‘Coleridge and the Fears of Friendship, 1798’, Coleridge Bulletin, 24 (2004), 11-18.
------------, ‘Agreement, Dissonance, Dissent: The Many Conversations of “This Lime-Tree Bower”’,
Coleridge Bulletin, 26 (2005), 37-57.
Kovesi, Simon, ‘John Clare, Charles Lamb and the London Magazine: “Sylvanus et Urban”’, CLB, 135
(2006), 82-93.
McEathron, Scott, ‘Hazlitt's Portrait of Charles Lamb: An Early Institutional History’, CLB, 103 (1998),
74-89.
Nield, Christopher S., ‘Distant Correspondents: Charles Lamb, Exploration and the Writing of
Letters’, Romanticism, 10.1 (2004), 79-94.
Smith, Christopher J. P., ‘Lamb and Southey: Painterly Allusion in the 1798 Review of Lyrical Ballads’,
CLB, 107 (1999), 110-13.
Strachan, John, ‘“Man Is a Gaming Animal”: Lamb, Gambling and Thomas Bish's Last Lottery’, CLB,
109 (2000), 15-35.
Taussig, Gurion, ‘“Lavish Promises”: Coleridge, Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, 1794-1798’,
Romanticism, 6.1 (2000), 78-97.
------------, Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804 (Newark and London, 2002).
Ulmer, William A., ‘The Rhetorical Occasion of “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”’, Romanticism, 13.1
(2007), 15-27.
Vigus, James, ‘Teach Yourself Guides to the literary life, 1817-1825: Coleridge, De Quincey and Lamb’,
CLB, 140 (2007), 152-166.
Watson, J. R., ‘“My Benevolent Friend”: George Dyer and His 1800 Preface’, CLB, 108 (1999), 170-77.
------------, ‘Lamb and Some Religious People: To Mary Wedd’, CLB, 136 (2006), 107-11.
Wedd, Mary, ‘Charles Lamb, the Friend’, Coleridge Bulletin, 5 (2000), 16-26.
------------, ‘Lamb and Coleridge in London’, Coleridge Bulletin, 19 (2002), 18-29.
Wu, Duncan, ‘The Lamb Circle and the Monthly Repository’, Romanticism, 12.2 (2006), 143-49.
CHARLES LAMB THE PHILOSOPHER
Kooy, Michael John, ‘Lamb the Moralist’, CLB, 127 (2004), 57-69.
Milnes, Tim, ‘Charles Lamb: Professor of Indifference’, Philosophy and Literature, 28.2 (2004), 324-41.
Natarajan, Uttara, ‘Hazlitt, Lamb, and the Philosophy of Familiarity’, CLB, 124 (2003), 110-18.
NEW IDENTIFICATIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bennett, Betty T., ‘Three Unpublished Songs by Charles Lamb for Mary Shelley’, Wordsworth Circle,
33.3 (2002), 122-23.
Riehl, Joseph, ‘Lamb's Drama Criticism of July 1823: A New Letter and a New Essay’, Wordsworth
Circle, 30.1 (1999), 59-63.
------------, ‘“The Mermaid”: A Newly Identified Lamb Essay’, CLB, 105 (1999), 28-31.
------------, ‘The St. James Street Mermaid and the Case for Thomas Hood's Authorship of “The
Mermaid”: A Postscript’, CLB, 106 (1999), 83.
Strachan, John, ‘The St. James's Street Mermaid and the Case for Thomas Hood's Authorship of “The
Mermaid”’, CLB, 106 (1999), 78-82.
Wickham, D. E., ‘Three Unpublished Notes of Charles Lamb and a Reply from Moxon’, CLB, 105
(1999), 32-37.
ALLUSIONS, INFLUENCES, AFTERLIVES
Beer, John, ‘Lamb and Dickens: The 2002 Toast’, CLB, 118 (2002), 30-31.
------------, ‘Why Were Buncle's Eyes Closed? The 2001 Toast’, CLB, 115 (2001), 70-71.
Clancey, Richard W., ‘Lamb, Horace, and the Ring of a Classic’, CLB, 108 (1999), 150-60.
------------, ‘Lamb, Virgil, and “Tears Shed for the Frail Estate of Human Kind”’, CLB, 116 (2001), 11019.
Coates, John, ‘In Defence of Appreciation: Pater’s “Charles Lamb”’, CLB, 137 (2007), 2-14.
Craik, Roger, ‘The Lion in ‘Burbank’ and Charles Lamb’, Yeats Eliot Review, 16.4 (2000), 31-32.
Craik, W. A., ‘The Sons of Elia: Essayists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, CLB, 119 (2002),
70-83.
Flanagan, Anne Marie, ‘Charles Lamb: The Unforeseen Precursor in Finnegans Wake’, In-between:
Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, 12 (2003), 159-73.
Grovier, Kelly, ‘An Allusion to Charles and Mary Lamb in Wordsworth's “A Slumber Did My Spirit
Seal”’ Notes and Queries, 51 (2004), 152.
Moise, Leslie, ‘Witch-Ridden: The Nightmare Connection between Charles Lamb and Sara Coleridge’,
CLB, 110 (2000), 71-77.
Rogers, Ben J., ‘A Pun from Charles Lamb in Moby Dick’, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles,
Notes, and Reviews, 13.3 (2000), 41-44.
Rowland, Peter, ‘The Irrepressible and the Inimitable; or, a Tale of Two Charlies, Part I’, CLB, 117
(2002), 2-11.
------------, ‘The Irrepressible and the Inimitable, or, A Tale of Two Charlies, Part II’, CLB, 118 (2002),
32-48.
Watters, Reggie, ‘“We Had Classics of Our Own”: Charles Lamb's Schoolboy Reading’, CLB, 104
(1998), 114-28.
Wellens, Oskar, ‘Charles Lamb in Dutch Translation’, CLB, 133 (2006), 18-26.
CHARLES AND
SHAKESPEAR
MARY
LAMB:
CHILDREN’S
WORK,
INCLUDING
TALES
FROM
Ciraulo, Darlene, ‘Fairy Magic and the Female Imagination: Mary Lamb's “A Midsummer Night's
Dream”’, Philological Quarterly, 78.4 (1999), 439-53.
------------, ‘Shakespeare and Education in the Lambs’ Poetry for Children and Tales from Shakespeare’,
Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, 2.1 (2006) [no pagination].
Clemit, Pamela, ‘William Godwin’s Juvenile Library’, CLB, 147 (2009), 90-99.
Huang, Alexander C. Y., Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (New York, 2009).
------------, ‘Lin Shu, Invisible Translation, and Politics’, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 14.1 (2006),
55-65.
James, Felicity, “‘Wild tales” from Shakespeare: Readings of Charles and Mary Lamb’, Shakespeare, 2.2
(2006), 152-167.
------------, ‘Lamb and The Adventures of Ulysses’, CLB, 147 (2009), 107-115.
Khazaie, Davood and Morteza Khosronejad, ‘A Genetic, Epistemological Reading of the Lambs' Tales
from Shakespear and Persian Folktales’, CLB, 137 (2007), 15-23.
Levith, Murray J., Shakespeare in China (London, 2006).
Manley, Susan, ‘Mrs. Leicester’s School and Schools for Treason’, CLB, 147 (2009), 116-121.
Morse, Ruth, ‘Children's Hour: Shakespeare, the Lambs, and French Education’, ed. and intro. by
Ladina Bezzola Lambert and Balz Engler, Shifting the Scene: Shakespeare in European Culture
(Newark, 2004).
Newman, Hilary, ‘The Lambs’ Tales from Shakespear and Shakespeare’s Plays’, CLB, 141 (2008), 20-28.
Pinsent, Pat, ‘Designs on Young Readers’, Journal of Children's Literature Studies, 2 (2005), 1-14.
Prince, Kathryn, ‘Illustration, Text, and Performance in Early Shakespeare for Children’, Borrowers and
Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, 2.2 (2006) [not paginated].
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois, Shakespeare as Children's Literature: Edwardian Retellings in Words and
Pictures (Jefferson, NC, 2008).
Roy, Malini, ‘Celebrating ‘wild tales’: Lamb and Godwin’s Groundwork for Children’s Literature’,
CLB, 147 (2009), 122-130.
Taylor, Mark, ‘The Shakespearean Minefield and the Silence of the Lambs’, Coleridge Bulletin, 23
(2004), 42-48.
Warner, Marina, ed., Tales from Shakespeare (London, 2007).
Wedd, Mary, ‘Mrs. Leicester’s School’, CLB, 147 (2009), 100-106.
Wu, Duncan, ‘Correcting the Lamb’s Tales: A Printer’s Records’, CLB, 140 (2007), 150-151.
Yin, Winifred, ‘The Lambs’ “Chapbook”: Tales from Shakespear: Following Foxon's Footsteps Further’,
Book Collector, 53.4 (2004), 542-58.
------------, ‘Textual Basis of Lambs' Tales from Shakespear’, CLB, 120 (2002), 124-33.
------------, ‘We Plot Together, Old Bachelor and Maid, in a Sort of Double Singleness’, CLB, 117 (2002),
12-23.
MARY LAMB
Appignanesi, Lisa, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
(London, 2008).
Balle, Mary Blanchard, ‘Mary Lamb and Sarah Stoddart: An Unlikely Friendship’, CLB, 106 (1999), 5465.
Craciun, Adriana, Fatal Women of Romanticism (Cambridge, 2003).
------------, ‘The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale’ in Romanticism and Women Poets:
Opening the Doors of Reception, ed. Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt (Lexington,
1999).
Straight, Julie, ‘Women, Religion, and Insanity in Mary Lamb's “The Young Mahometan”’, European
Romantic Review, 16.4 (2005), 417-38.
Wedd, Mary, ‘Mary Lamb’, CLB, 102 (1998), 42-54.
Woodbery, Bonnie, ‘The Mad Body as the Text of Culture in the Writings of Mary Lamb’, SEL, 39.4
(1999), 659-74.
------------, ‘The Silence of the Lambs: Anti-Maniacal Regimes in the Writing of Mary Lamb’, Women's
Writing, 5.3 (1998), 189-304.
CHAPTERS ABOUT THE LAMBS IN RECENT BOOKS
Gigante, Denise, Taste: A Literary History (New Haven, 2005).
Perkins, David, Romanticism and Animal Rights (Cambridge, 2003).
Plotz, Judith, Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood (New York, 2001).
Sanders, Valerie, The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature from Austen to Woolf
(Basingstoke and New York, 2004).
Taylor, Anya, Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830 (Basingstoke and New York,
1999).
THE LAMBS, CRITICAL HISTORY AND READERSHIP
Flores, Christopher, ‘Collaboration in Conflict: What Happens When 2 Scholars Work Together on a
Project – and Things Go Horribly Wrong?’, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 48.40 (2002), 14-16.
Riehl, Joseph E., That Dangerous Figure: Charles Lamb and the Critics (Columbia, 1998).
Stabler, Jane, ‘Women and Children First: Charles Lamb, Lord Byron and the Nineteenth-Century
Readership’, CLB, 105 (1999), 2-15.
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Burton, Sarah, ‘Toothache and Gumboil: Biographical Dilemmas’, CLB, 124 (2003), 119-31.
------------, A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb (London, 2003).
Chandler, David, ‘Charles Lamb and the South Sea House’, Notes and Queries, 51 (2004), 139-43.
Rydbeck, Margareta Eurenius, ‘Christ's Hospital a Second Time Revisited, Part I’, CLB, 119 (2002), 84101.
------------, ‘Christ's Hospital a Second Time Revisited, Part II’, CLB, 120 (2002), 106-23.
Stelzig, Eugene, Romantic Autobiography in England (Surrey, 2009).
Treadwell, James, ‘Impersonation and Autobiography in Lamb's Christ's Hospital Essays’, Studies in
Romanticism, 37. 4 (1998), 499-521.
------------, Autobiographical Writing and British literature, 1783-1834 (Oxford, 2005).
Tyler Hitchcock, Susan, Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London (London and New
York, 2005).
Watson, Kathy, The Devil Kissed Her: The Story of Mary Lamb (London, 2005).
FICTION/ PLAYS ABOUT THE LAMBS
Ackroyd, Peter, The Lambs of London (London, 2004).
Irons, George Leslie, ‘Filming Lamb’s Tales’, CLB, 144 (2008), 132-4 and Lamb’s Tales (DVD produced
by the Charles Lamb Society, 2008).
Kinney, Arthur F., ed. and intro., The Coast of Illyria: A Play in Three Acts, by Dorothy Parker and Ross
Evans (Iowa City, 1990).
Shaffer, Mary Ann, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (London, 2008).
PAYING HOMAGE
Brandes, Melba S., ‘“Into the Edmonton Churchyard”: My Visit to the Grave of Charles Lamb’, CLB,
106 (1999), 84-86.
Matthews, Samantha, ‘Epitaphs, Effusions and Final Memorials: Wordsworth and the Grave of
Charles Lamb’, CLB, 118 (2002), 49-63.
Wickham, D. E., ‘Lamb’s Last Letter Comes Home’, CLB, 136 (2006), 112.