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International Companion to John Galt /
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 Rom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Colección: | International companions to Scottish literature.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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