The History of Matthew Wald : : John Gibson Lockhart / / ed. by Thomas C. Richardson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• HerausgeberIn: Richardson, Thomas C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart : ECEJGL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

A scholarly edition of Lockhart’s most intricate and sophisticated contribution to the Scottish historical novelCritically-edited text with full scholarly apparatusComprehensive Introduction that addresses the composition of the novel, the novel’s literary and historical contexts, and the novel’s critical receptionExtensive Explanatory Notes that identify "ations within the novel, the novel’s literary, historical, political, cultural, and geographical references, and other key expressionsProvides a comprehensive glossary of Scots words, as well as other single words that might not be familiar to the readerTextual notes addressing Lockhart’s revisions based on the extant manuscript proof, as well as other publications within Lockhart’s lifetimeThe 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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