Maxwell Gray, The Silence of Dean Maitland
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:6th Jun '19
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First scholarly edition of a neglected, hugely popular best-seller Key Features First 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.
The Silence of Dean Maitland, a very little known text from the mid-Victorian period, offers us a glimpse of the concerns of the period – the problem of crime and its detection and punishment; questions of conscience and behaviour in the post-Darwinian world – all set amongst a panorama of characters in rural mid-century Britain. In this novel, Mrs Henry Wood meets Mrs Humphry Ward and they both nod politely towards the world of Thomas Hardy. Wolfreys’ edition of this text gives us comprehensive notes to aid the reader’s understanding and a brilliant selection of contemporary commentary on the issues the novel raises. It gives us the chance to broaden our canon of Victorian fiction into realms that are resolutely not part of the old ‘Great Tradition’. * Ruth Robbins, Leeds Beckett University *
ISBN: 9781474443234
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 764g
424 pages