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The history of Matthew Wald / John Gibson Lockhart ; edited by Thomas C. Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, author.
- Series:
- Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854. Works
- The Edinburgh critical edition of the works of John Gibson Lockhart
- The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scotland--Fiction.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (liv, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- <i>The History of Matthew Wald</i> (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 eighteenth and early nineteenth 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The History of Matthew Wald
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- LETTER TO P. R. ESQ
- Emendation List
- Hyphenation List
- Explanatory Notes
- Textual Notes
- Glossary
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-0669-2
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