Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk: The Text and Introduction, Notes, and Editorial Material (The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1399500708 ISBN 13: 9781399500708

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of an elderly Welsh physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow and Edinburgh in terms of German nationalist and Romantic criticism. Focusing on the networks of the law, the church, the universities, fine art, antiquarianism, literature, theatre, and periodical culture he provided a series of brilliant, sometimes serious and sometimes satirical, portraits of the most notable characters of the day and the institutions they represented, and his text is accompanied by a series of portrait engravings and of vignettes of significant moments in his tour. This edition presents the first complete text of this widely-allusive work published since 1819, together with the substantial notes that a modern reader requires to understand it fully. The editorial apparatus also comprises a detailed index and an essay on the contemporary illustrations.

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About the Authors

Peter Garside was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities and taught English Literature for more than thirty years at Cardiff University, where he became Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research. Subsequently he was appointed Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now a Professorial Fellow. He was one of the general editors of the bibliographical survey The English Novel 1770-1829 (2000) and has since co-edited the critical collection English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (2015). More recent work includes editions of Walter Scott’s Shorter Poems (2020) and J. G. Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk (2 volumes, 2022).

Gillian Hughes, Independent Scholar, has been a General Editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, and is currently an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers, and also a biography of James Hogg.

From the Back Cover

The first complete edition of Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk published since its original appearance in 1819, including the original illustrations, along with extensive new annotation and full editorial apparatus.In Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of a visiting Welsh physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow and Edinburgh in terms of German nationalist and Romantic criticism. Focusing on the networks of the law, the church, universities, fine art, antiquarianism, literature, theatre and periodical culture, he provided a series of brilliant, sometimes serious and sometimes satirical, portraits of the most notable characters of the day and the institutions they represented. His text is accompanied by a series of portrait engravings and vignettes of significant moments in his tour. The present edition provides the first complete text of this widely-allusive work published since 1819, together with a substantial Introduction, Notes and full editorial apparatus, including a detailed index and an essay on the contemporary illustrations.Peter Garside is Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has served on the Boards of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg and has published a variety of volumes for these scholarly editions.Gillian Hughes is an independent scholar. She works as an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers and a biography of James Hogg (2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399500708
• ISBN 13: 9781399500708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 976
• Editor: Garside Peter, Hughes Gillian