TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carruthers,Gerard
AU  - Kidd,Colin
TI  - The International Companion to John Galt
T2  - International Companions to Scottish Literature Series
SN  - 9781908980281
AV  - PR4708.G2 .I584 2017 
U1  - 823.7 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Glasgow
PB  - Association for Scottish Literary Studies
KW  - Galt, John,-1779-1839-Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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