Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture

  1. 528 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture

About this book

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considerations of Lewis's well-known Gothic works whilst also providing coverage of his more obscure published and unpublished texts.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 remainsfirst 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Chronology of Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Works
  9. Introduction: Forgetting and Remembering Matthew Gregory Lewis
  10. 1 The Author of The Monk
  11. 2 The Accidental Provocateur
  12. 3 The Original Dramatist
  13. 4 The Adaptor and Translator
  14. 5 The Poet, Balladeer and Writer of Shorter Tales
  15. 6 The Slave-Owner
  16. Notes
  17. Select Bibliography