Tremaine, or The Man of Refinement: [a novel]

Langue : anglais

Edité par London: Henry Colburn, 1825

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3 vols. Contemporary quarter roan, gilt, marbled boards. Spines slightly faded, some wear at foot to spine of vol. i, some spotting in text. Engraved frontispiece in vol. i of "Evelyn Hall"; dedicated to William Sturges Bourne MP. Third edition in the year of publication, with pencilled ownership signatures, "Jeffery", and a few marginal pencillings. The anonymous author, Robert Plumer Ward (né Ward, 1765-1846 - he adopted "Plumer" after his second marriage in 1828), enjoyed three careers, the first at the Bar, the second as an MP (for Cockermouth, 1802-6, and Haslemere, 1807-23), the third as a novelist. Tremaine, his first novel, sold 1500 copies in three weeks. It has been called "a pioneer of the silver fork genre" (as was the anonymous Matilda, issued by the same publisher in the same year, and written by Ward's first wife's nephew Viscount Normanby); Michael Sadleir declared it "the chief impulse to [Benjamin Disraeli's] Vivian Grey" (also published by Henry Colburn, 1826) and "the inspiration of the two most influential novelists of the 'thirties and 'forties". Yet it is unashamedly didactic. Open vol. ii at random and you find: "'But the force of sympathy,' answered Evelyn, 'which, in a matter of feeling as well as reason, (and such I all along hold religion to be,) will always overpower every thing that reason, without feeling, may coldly attempt. Have we never heard of the beautiful line, "And those that came to laugh, remain'd to pray?" Get people then once to church, and give me but a few in a really devout mood, and I will answer for most of the rest.' 'Oh! no doubt,' replied Tremaine, 'and be sure in your sympathies you forget not the influence of the bells, the music of England! I should be glad to follow your ingenuity in tracing the exact progress of kindling piety, as the tolling changes from almost merriment to gravity, and from gravity to devotion. There is first a deep chime, then a deep tolling, lastly, a little minute-bell, while the vicar is putting on his surplice: but this mummery rather moves the spleen than raises devotion' . . .".

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Titre
Tremaine, or The Man of Refinement: [a novel]
Auteur
[Robert Plumer WARD]
Éditeur
London: Henry Colburn
Année de publication
1825
État de l'article
Assez bon
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais

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