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William Alexander Clouston (1843-96), folklorist: introduction and bibliography.(Reviews Of Folklore Scholarship)

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From: Folklore
Date: 20041201
Author:Whittaker, Gareth

Introduction

Richard Dorson counted William Alexander Clouston among the "giants" of nineteenth-century folklore. In The British Folklorists (Dorson 1968a, 257), he placed him in his "Great Team" alongside Andrew Lang, George Laurence Gomme, Alfred Nutt, Edwin Sidney Hartland and Edward Clodd. But Clouston never sat easily in such illustrious company, neither in reality nor in Dorson's mind. [1] He was not a team player. He lived in Glasgow and took little part in the activities of The Folk-Lore Society in which the other team members were such leading lights. He was not an ...

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