ABSTRACT
Godwin, Mandeville (1817); review by John Gibson Lockhart, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, II (Dec. 1817), 268-279. Lockhart begins with a few steps in the critical direction taken by Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis (1946). He then moves on to consider madness and recognizes Dante as a primary model and precursor for the self-conscious, introverted heroism common to the protagonists of Godwin and Byron (p. 270). Here he signs himself with the initial “T” to distinguish his positive criticism from the terrible fulminations of “Z,” that enemy of Cockneys.
