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The International Companion to John Galt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Companions to Scottish Literature SeriesPublisher: Glasgow : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (196 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781908980281
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The International Companion to John GaltDDC classification:
  • 823.7
LOC classification:
  • PR4708.G2 .I584 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- About the Series -- Preface -- Body -- Introduction -- 1. John Galt's Ayrshire -- 2. Satire, Hypocrisy, and the Ayrshire-Renfrewshire Enlightenment -- 3. Finding Galt in Glasgow -- 4. Galt the Speculator: Sir Andrew Wylie, The Entail, and Lawrie Todd -- 5. How John Galt Wrote North America -- 6. Commemorating the Covenanters in Ringan Gilhaize -- 7. The Insider's Eye in the Age of Improvement, Urbanisation, and Revolution -- 8. Pioneering the Political Novel in English -- 9. Reading for Something Other than the Plot in Galt's 'Tales of the West' -- 10. Gender and the Short Story in the Twilight Years -- Back matter -- Other Works in the Series -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index -- Back cover -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page.
Summary: John Galt (1779-1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. This International Companion examines Galt's writings in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time.
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Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- About the Series -- Preface -- Body -- Introduction -- 1. John Galt's Ayrshire -- 2. Satire, Hypocrisy, and the Ayrshire-Renfrewshire Enlightenment -- 3. Finding Galt in Glasgow -- 4. Galt the Speculator: Sir Andrew Wylie, The Entail, and Lawrie Todd -- 5. How John Galt Wrote North America -- 6. Commemorating the Covenanters in Ringan Gilhaize -- 7. The Insider's Eye in the Age of Improvement, Urbanisation, and Revolution -- 8. Pioneering the Political Novel in English -- 9. Reading for Something Other than the Plot in Galt's 'Tales of the West' -- 10. Gender and the Short Story in the Twilight Years -- Back matter -- Other Works in the Series -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index -- Back cover -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page.

John Galt (1779-1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. This International Companion examines Galt's writings in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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