Sternberg, the Second Folklorist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8933971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Roper (0000-0001-8807-2276, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 202-217 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2014.890784 |
| OpenAlex | W2113464127 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
By rights, Vincent Thomas Sternberg (1831–80) should be remembered as the man to write the first book with ‘folklore’ in its title. Instead, he currently holds greater posthumous fame as ‘the Leeds Library ghost’. This is very much to be regretted, as his book The Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire (1851) is not only of interest due to its historic title, but also prefigures some of the fault-lines that have marked folklore studies in England and elsewhere ever since: the insecurity of the author at the triviality of his material, whether and quite how those who know and enact lore should be represented, and so on
Art · Art history · Folklore · Folkloristics · Literature · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |