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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McKeever, Gerard Lee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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