
Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture
Dale Townshend(Author)
University of Wales Press
Published on 15. May 2024
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-1-83772-129-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the oeuvre of Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), from his juvenilia through to his romances and shorter tales, dramas, translations, adaptations, ballads, poetry and editorial endeavours, and into his posthumously published writings on slavery. Across an extended introduction and six chapters, the argument offers fresh considerations of Lewis's well-known Gothic works whilst also providing coverage of his more obscure published and unpublished texts. Based on extensive archival research undertaken in Britain, North America and the Caribbean, the book restores to critical focus a number of Lewis's works that have not previously been given scholarly attention. While drawing, where relevant, upon the biographical studies of earlier critics, the study remains first and foremost a literary history, and the first closely to situate this most prolific, versatile and influential of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British writers in relation to Gothic and Romantic literary culture more broadly.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83772-129-0 (9781837721290)
DOI
10.1234/b11485
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Content
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Chronology of Matthew Gregory Lewis's Works
Introduction: Forgetting and Remembering Matthew Gregory Lewis
Chapter 1: The Author of The Monk
Chapter 2: The Accidental Provocateur
Chapter 3: The Original Dramatist
Chapter 4: The Adaptor and Translator
Chapter 5: The Poet, Balladeer and Writer of Shorter Tales
Chapter 6: The Slave-Owner
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Index
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Chronology of Matthew Gregory Lewis's Works
Introduction: Forgetting and Remembering Matthew Gregory Lewis
Chapter 1: The Author of The Monk
Chapter 2: The Accidental Provocateur
Chapter 3: The Original Dramatist
Chapter 4: The Adaptor and Translator
Chapter 5: The Poet, Balladeer and Writer of Shorter Tales
Chapter 6: The Slave-Owner
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Index