Martin Faber: The Story of a Criminal

图书信息

作者	John Caldwell Guilds
出版社	University of Arkansas Press
ISBN	9781610752602
出版时间	2006-01-02
字数	21.0万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

William Gilmore Simms's (1806-1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms's career began with a short novel, Martin Faber, published in 1833. This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg's Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe's "e;William Wilson."e; Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology. Martin seduces then murders Emily so that he might marry another woman, Constance. Martin confesses to his friend and is killed after attempting to stab Constance when she visits him in jail. The book was immediately successful and was well received by the northern media, thus starting Simms's successful career as a writer, one that would rank him as the only major southern literary figure besides Poe before the Civil War. As with other volumes in the Arkansas Edition of Simms's work, this volume includes a critical introduction by the editor and a Simms chronology, as well as appendices dealing with textual matters. This edition also includes Simms's 1829 story, "e;Confessions of a Murderer,"e; which was the germ for his first book of fiction.

目录

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE TO THE ARKANSAS EDITION

SPECIAL NOTE TO MARTIN FABER

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS CHRONOLOGY

INTRODUCTION TO MARTIN FABER

Text of Martin Faber

APPENDICES

HISTORICAL AND TEXTUAL COMMENTARY

EXPLANATORY NOTES

TEXTUAL NOTES AND EMENDATIONS

CONFESSIONS OF A MURDERER.

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