Adam Blair
Adam Blair

Author: John Gibson Lockhart

Publisher: The Saltire Society

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780854110964

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As well as a psychological study of a tormented soul, 'Adam Blair' throws light on Scottish society at the end of the 18th century when the rigidities of a puritanical past were slowly giving way to a more moderate and modern outlook.

Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Miekle
Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Miekle

Author: Lockhart John Gibson Lockhart

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-06

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1474456111

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Offers Lockhart's final text to modern readers for the first timeOffers the first scholarly edition of Lockhart's best-know novel based on Lockhart's final textSupplies extensive annotation and full scholarly apparatusIncludes a thorough textual history based on comparative study of the manuscript, corrected proof pages, first edition, and second editionSome Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair (1822), John Gibson Lockhart's second and best-known novel, is the story of a Church of Scotland minister whose sexual relationship with a married woman has tragic consequences. One of the earliest serious studies in fiction of a minister in Scottish society, the novel also explores gender roles through the character of Blair's friend in the affair, Charlotte. This edition provides the first modern publication of Lockhart's final text, the revised second edition (1824), as well as the first scholarly edition of the novel, including extensive annotations and a detailed textual history.

The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature
The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature

Author: Alison M. Jack

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0198817290

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This groundbreaking study focuses on the reconfiguring of the character of the Prodigal Son and his family as they appear in drama, novels, and poetry in English from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Citizens of Somewhere Else
Citizens of Somewhere Else

Author: Dan McCall

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780801436406

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Adopting an informal, conversational tone, McCall invites us to join him in a reading of some of Hawthorne's and James's masterpieces - not only The Scarlet Letter and The Portrait of a Lady but their great short stories, extensive notebooks, and other novels as well. He explains the significance of James's book Hawthorne, shows the influence of Emerson on both writers, and conveys throughout James's imaginative debt to Hawthorne.