The History of Matthew Wald
Between 1821 and 1824 John Gibson Lockhart published four novels: only Adam Blair has been regularly reprinted. The History of Matthew Wald (1824), his other Scottish novel, is a gripping Gothic tale which can be compared with William Godwin's or Charles Brockden Brown's fiction. Walter Scott, Lockhart's father-in-law, praised the power of this novel. Though there is some social comedy à la Galt in Matthew Wald, Lockhart is more concerned with Scotland as a spiritual and psychological environment than with social detail. He focuses on the hero's mental torment, summing up the plot dynamics by saying, in a review article of his own novel, that…
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Weitere Autoren: Bour, Isabelle (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-631-36667-7
- EAN: 9783631366677
- Produktnummer: 20017509
- Verlag: Lang, Peter GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 182 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.6 cm x D1.2 cm 249 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 30
- Gewicht: 249
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