Overview

John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. Although a prolific writer, and much admired in his own lifetime, Galt has never achieved comparable levels of literary fame, and his works – poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism – are now often overlooked. Yet his reputation has been slowly growing, and he has attracted critical interest as both a political novelist and a chronicler of Scottish life. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION builds on a steady stream of recent scholarship, and examines Galt’s writings in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time.

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Author:   Gerard Carruthers ,  Colin Kidd
Publisher:   Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Imprint:   Scottish Literature International
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9781908980274

ISBN 10:   1908980273
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   08 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Preface A Brief Biography of John Galt Introduction (Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd) 1. John Galt’s Ayrshire (Andrew O’Hagan) 2. Satire, Hypocrisy, and the Ayrshire–Renfrewshire Enlightenment (Colin Kidd) 3. Finding Galt in Glasgow (Craig Lamont) 4. Galt the Speculator: Sir Andrew Wylie, The Entail, and Lawrie Todd (Angela Esterhammer) 5. How John Galt Wrote North America (Ian McGhee) 6. Commemorating the Covenanters in Ringan Gilhaize (Alison Lumsden) 7. The Insider’s Eye in the Age of Improvement, Urbanisation, and Revolution (Christopher A. Whatley) 8. Pioneering the Political Novel in English (Gordon Millar) 9. Reading for Something Other than the Plot in Galt’s ‘Tales of the West’ (Anthony Jarrells) 10. Gender and the Short Story in the Twilight Years (Gerard Carruthers) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Gerard Carruthers holds the Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.

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