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THE PHILOSOPHY
OF ENCHANTMENT
Studies in Folktale, Cultural
Criticism, and Anthropology
R. G. COLLINGWOOD
Edited by
David Boucher,
Wendy James,
and
Philip Smallwood
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Part1:FrontispiecefromTheLifeandDeathofCormactheSkald,
translatedbyW.G.CollingwoodandJonStefansson,1902.
Part2:FrontispiecefromThorsteinoftheMere,byW.G.Colling-
wood,1895.
Part 3: Illustration from The Story of the Volsungs, translated by
EirikrMagnussonandWilliamMorris,1888,editedbyH.Halli-
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acknowledgements
We are grateful for the support of Mrs Teresa Smith, Colling-
wood’sdaughter,whoencouragedthisprojectfromanearlystage,
andgenerouslyconsentedtothepublicationofourselectionfrom
herfather’sunpublishedwork.ProfessorDavidHopkinsofBristol
University and Professor Roger Scruton both assisted us when
takingthemeasureofCollingwood’s‘Words and Tune’. DrJohn
Mullarkey of the Department of Philosophy at the University of
Sunderland helped locate Collingwood’s manuscript quotations
fromBergson.ProfessorJackZipesoftheUniversityofMinnesota
read through the entire folktale manuscript and gave the editors
the benefit of many valuable observations and judgements. The
editors are also grateful for the support and encouragement of
ProfessorDonaldS.Taylor,EmeritusProfessorofEnglishatthe
UniversityofOregonandauthoroftheannotatedBibliographyof
Collingwood’s unpublished manuscripts. Professor Taylor was
one of the first scholars to recognize the value to literary history
andtheoryofCollingwood’sunpublishedwritingsonfolktale.
ColinHarrisandhisdeputyOliverHouseintheModernManu-
scriptsReadingRoomoftheBodleianLibraryhavegivenusexpert
andtirelesssupportthroughtheprocessofinspectingandtranscri-
bing the manuscripts in the Collingwood Papers archive. We are
gratefultoNaomivanLoo,oftheMcGowinLibraryatPembroke
College, to Mr Robin Darwall-Smith, archivist of University
College, and to Dr James Connelly of Southampton Institute
whosharedwithushisnotesonCollingwood’slibraryandgener-
ouslyassistedinlocatingreportsofCollingwood’slecturesonJane
Austen. We would like to thank Marnie Hughes Warrington for
her initial work on producing an electronic copy of the folktale
manuscript,thiskindlyfundedbyWilliamRieckmann.AtCardiff
University Lisa Berni has been extremely generous in devoting
timetofurtheringtheproject,forwhichweareagainverygrateful.
WeshouldliketothankstaffoftheBritish Library,WillRyanof
the Warburg Institute, Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Soci-
ety, and Caroline Oates, Librarian of the Folklore Society, for
acknowledgements
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assistance in locating material. Staff of the Oxford University
Press Archives gave us valuable support, and we are in debt to
Dr Kathleen Taylor and Dr Gillian Wright for helping with the
interpretationofCollingwood’shandwrittenGreek.
Forpermissiontoadapt,aspartofourIntroductionandappar-
atus,somematerialpreviouslypublishedinessayform,weshould
like to thank the editors of Collingwood Studies. Dr Peter Rivie`re
kindlycommentedonouraccountofanthropologyinthe1930s.
The hospitality and intellectual stimulation of the Visiting
ScholarshipschemeatStJohn’sCollege,Oxford—ofwhichPhilip
Smallwoodwasabeneficiaryinthesummervacationof2003—has
helpedusgreatlyinbringingoureditorialworktoaconclusion.All
three editors have been given sterling support by family over the
longgestationofthisproject.
Finally we should like to thank Peter Momtchiloff of Oxford
UniversityPressforhisreceptivenesstothepublicationofmanu-
script material by Collingwood and for his encouragement and
advice at every stage. The detailed and expert guidance of the
anonymous readers for the Press has proved indispensable in
waystoonumeroustomention.
January2005
contents
Abbreviations xi
Editors’ForewordandNote xiii
Editors’Introduction xxiii
1. TheRe-EnactmentofSelf:Perspectivesfrom
Literature,Criticism,andCulture PhilipSmallwood xxiii
2. AFieldworker’sPhilosopher:Perspectivesfrom
Anthropology WendyJames lvi
3. InDefenceofCollingwood:Perspectivesfrom
PhilosophyandtheHistoryofIdeas DavidBoucher xcii
Part I ART AND CULTURE 1
WordsandTune 3
ObservationsonLanguage 18
JaneAusten(1921) 21
JaneAusten(?1934) 34
ThePhilosophyofArt 49
AestheticTheoryandArtisticPractice 81
Part II TALES OF ENCHANTMENT 113
1. FairyTales 115
2. ThreeMethodsofApproach:Philological,
Functional,Psychological 132
3. TheHistoricalMethod 178
4. Magic 195
Description:This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the core are six essays on folktale and magic in which
