History of Matthew Wald - John Gibson Lockhart

The History of Matthew Wald (1824) is John Gibson Lockhart's fourth and final novel and perhaps his most focused, stylistically successful fiction. The title character tells his own story, which is set in the context of, and carefully interwoven with, the larger historical, social, and political events and circumstances of Scotland in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Matthew Wald exemplifies Lockhart's idea that the novel should portray the 'human mind under the influence of not one, but many of its passions-ambition-love-revenge-remorse' and should reflect the historical and social truth of the age. This scholarly edition includes an Introduction that discusses the literary and historical contexts of the narrative and the novel's early reception and textual history. Detailed Explanatory Notes complement the Introduction to provide the modern reader with the resources to re-evaluate Lockhart's place in the history of the Scottish novel and Romantic fiction.

Info autore

Thomas C. Richardson is Professor of English and holds the Eudora Welty Chair at Mississippi University for Women. He is the editor of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair in the series Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart, as well as the two-volume edition of James Hogg's Contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

Riassunto

A scholarly edition of Lockhart’s most intricate and sophisticated contribution to the Scottish historical novel

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas C Richardson, Thomas C. Richardson, Thomas C. (Professor of English Emerit Richardson, RICHARDSON THOMAS C
• Con la collaborazione di: Thomas C Richardson (Editore), Thomas C. Richardson (Editore), Thomas C. (Professor of English Emeritus Richardson (Editore)
• Editore: Edinburgh University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781399506687
• ISBN: 978-1-399-50668-7
• Pagine: 296
• Serie: The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata