Dialectics of improvement : Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 /
This publication develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism Ser.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Robert Burns and 'Circling Time'
- Chapter 2 Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott
- Chapter 3 'The Great Moral Object' in Joanna Baillie's Drama
- Chapter 4 The Story of John Galt's Scottish Novels
- Coda: 'There is no end to machinery'
- Bibliography
- Index