The History of Sir Richard Calmady; A Romance, by Lucas Malet. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1901.
vii, 687 p. 19 cm.
According to The Literary Encyclopedia, this novel is
among the most famous and controversial novels of the turn of the century…. The novel includes sexually explicit material made possible only by Malet’s strategic use of a highly wrought aesthetic discourse. It traces the psychological development of a disabled man as he moves from profound self-hatred towards slow acceptance. Sir Richard Calmady is also remarkable for its female characters…. In its experimental style, psychological development, and complex discourse, [it] is a groundbreaking novel.
Lucas Malet (1852-1931) is the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison, daughter of Charles Kingsley. Her works are considered by some to be “central to understanding the development of the novel from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries.”
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