Between 1821 and 1824 John Gibson Lockhart published four novels: only Adam Blair has been regularly reprinted. The History of Matthew Wald (1824), his other Scottish novel, is a gripping Gothic tale which can be compared with William Godwin's or Charles Brockden Brown's fiction. Walter Scott, Lockhart's father-in-law, praised the »power» of this novel. Though there is some social comedy à la Galt in Matthew Wald, Lockhart is more concerned wi...
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