International Companion to John Galt /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kidd, Colin (Editor), Carruthers, Gerard (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:International companions to Scottish literature.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Galt, John, > 1779-1839 > Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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