Maxwell Gray, The Silence of Dean Maitland (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wolfreys, Julian / Mitwirkender: Gray, Maxwell

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First scholarly edition of a neglected, hugely popular best-sellerKey FeaturesFirst scholarly edition of forgotten late Victorian classic of rural life and sensation fictionComprehensive selection of contemporary reviews and commentariesCarefully contextualized introduction to the novel and its authorMaxwell Gray tells the sensational story of an ambitious clergyman, who accidentally kills the father of a woman he has made pregnant, and then allows his closest friend to be convicted of the murder. The best-seller was subsequently filmed three times (1914, 1915, 1934) and presents fascinating insights into the forgotten world of late Victorian rural life. Including a carefully contextualised introduction to the novel and its author, this edition also provides a comprehensive selection of contemporary reviews and commentaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474443258
• Artikelnr.: 72430060

Autorenporträt

Mary Gleed Tuttiett, better known by the pen name Maxwell Gray, was an English novelist and poet best known for her 1886 novel The Silence of Dean Maitland. Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in LIterature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens's London and The Derrida Wordbook, both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgements and a note on the text
The Silence of Dean Maitland
Appendices
1. An Interview with Maxwell Gray, by Catherine Jane Hamilton, from The
Woman at Home, 1895 (facsimile)
2. Period Map of the Isle of Wight c.1914
3. Frontispiece illustration from the fifth edition of the novel
4. "Shooting" a Scene. For an Australian Talkie. Sydney Morning Herald,
Thursday 7 December, 1933 (facsimile)
5. Reviews of and Commentary on The Silence of Dean Maitland, with
commentary on and reviews of the Australian film versions (1914, 1934) of
the novel, and related material 1886-1991
6. Poster for 1934 film of The Silence of Dean Maitland