"Never in Bedlam?": Madness and History in Sir Walter Scott's "The Heart of Mid-Lothian"

When introducing the anecdote of the madwoman, Scott writes of having "had madmen on my hand" in the past (Journal, 450), but he also had a madman as his hand, and he created madmen and madwomen by his hand, characters who have been described as the "unreadable core" of his novel...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Studies in romanticism 2016-12, Vol.55 (4), p.537-558
1. Verfasser:	JONES, EMRYS D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	British & Irish literature Fiction Hands Heart Novels Porter, Roy Reading Scott, Walter (1771-1832) Scottish literature Scull, Andrew Sleep
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