Offers Lockhart's final text to modern readers for the first time
Offers the first scholarly edition of Lockhart's best-know novel
based on Lockhart's final text Supplies extensive annotation and
full scholarly apparatus Includes a thorough textual history based
on comparative study of the manuscript, corrected proof pages,
first edition, and second edition Some 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.
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