"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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Published in:Studies in romanticism 2016-12, Vol.55 (4), p.537-558
Main Author: JONES, EMRYS D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
Fiction
Hands
Heart
Novels
Porter, Roy
Reading
Scott, Walter (1771-1832)
Scottish literature
Scull, Andrew
Sleep
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