Thomas C. Richardson is Professor of English Emeritus at Mississippi University for Women. He is the editor of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair and The History of Matthew Wald in the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart, as well as the two-volume edition of James Hogg’s Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

Thomas C. Richardson’s edition of Lockhart’s strange but compelling History of Matthew Wald (1824) helpfully contextualises the religious, political and linguistic aspects of the novel’s eighteenth-century Scottish setting while brilliantly situating it in relation to Lockhart’s previous fiction, his role at Blackwood’s Magazine and to a new Godwinian strain of the Romantic novel.

• Aims of the EditionVolume Editor’s AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Genesis of the Novel2. Critical Reception 3. A Note on the Text The History of Matthew Wald Emendation List Hyphenation List Explanatory NotesTextual NotesGlossary

Thomas C. Richardson is Professor of English Emeritus at Mississippi University for Women. He is the editor of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair and The History of Matthew Wald in the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart, as well as the two-volume edition of James Hogg’s Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

Thomas C. Richardson’s edition of Lockhart’s strange but compelling History of Matthew Wald (1824) helpfully contextualises the religious, political and linguistic aspects of the novel’s eighteenth-century Scottish setting while brilliantly situating it in relation to Lockhart’s previous fiction, his role at Blackwood’s Magazine and to a new Godwinian strain of the Romantic novel.

• Aims of the EditionVolume Editor’s AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Genesis of the Novel2. Critical Reception 3. A Note on the Text The History of Matthew Wald Emendation List Hyphenation List Explanatory NotesTextual NotesGlossary

Thomas C. Richardson is Professor of English Emeritus at Mississippi University for Women. He is the editor of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair and The History of Matthew Wald in the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart, as well as the two-volume edition of James Hogg’s Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

Thomas C. Richardson’s edition of Lockhart’s strange but compelling History of Matthew Wald (1824) helpfully contextualises the religious, political and linguistic aspects of the novel’s eighteenth-century Scottish setting while brilliantly situating it in relation to Lockhart’s previous fiction, his role at Blackwood’s Magazine and to a new Godwinian strain of the Romantic novel.

• Aims of the EditionVolume Editor’s AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Genesis of the Novel2. Critical Reception 3. A Note on the Text The History of Matthew Wald Emendation List Hyphenation List Explanatory NotesTextual NotesGlossary