The International Companion to John Galt
As part of the International Companions to Scottish Literature Series, this Galt companion builds on a steady stream of recent scholarship, and examines Galt’s writings in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time. Find more information, including prices and where to buy.
CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- A Brief Biography of John Galt
- Introduction (Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd)
- John Galt’s Ayrshire (Andrew O’Hagan)
- Satire, Hypocrisy, and the Ayrshire–Renfrewshire Enlightenment (Colin Kidd)
- Finding Galt in Glasgow (Craig Lamont)
- Galt the Speculator: Sir Andrew Wylie, The Entail, and Lawrie Todd (Angela Esterhammer)
- How John Galt Wrote North America (Ian McGhee)
- Commemorating the Covenanters in Ringan Gilhaize (Alison Lumsden)
- The Insider’s Eye in the Age of Improvement, Urbanisation, and Revolution (Christopher A. Whatley)
- Pioneering the Political Novel in English (Gordon Millar)
- Reading for Something Other than the Plot in Galt’s ‘Tales of the West’ (Anthony Jarrells)
- Gender and the Short Story in the Twilight Years (Gerard Carruthers)
- Endnotes
- Further Reading
- Notes on Contributors
- Index