Shadow and substance: restoring the literary output of Robert Pearse Gillies (1789–1858)

Garside, Peter 2023. Shadow and substance: restoring the literary output of Robert Pearse Gillies (1789–1858). Romantic Textualities (24) , pp. 117-148. 10.18573/romtext.106

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Abstract

Late in life in in his Memoirs of a Literary Veteran (1851) R. P. Gillies reflected on a career fraught with difficulties owing to debt and other obstacles, though in it earlier stages it might be said to have paralleled in some respects the path of Walter Scott, while reaching a highpoint in the 1820s through Gillies’s significant input as a Germanist into Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. One deep regret as expressed in the Memoirs was his eventual incapacity to piece together his own literary record owing to the loss of materials at significant points in his life. The present article attempts to ameliorate this situation by providing a fuller record than was then available to Gillies himself, through means such as the recovery of rare editions, identification of periodical contributions, and information provided by the archives of the Royal Literary Fund. More particularly it offers an improved account of Gillies’s output as a novelist and translator of fiction, with some newly identified titles being added to the list, while others are removed.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	1748-0116
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 November 2023
Date of Acceptance:	16 September 2019
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2023 18:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/163890

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