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The first scholarly edition of Bogle Corbet Includes explanatory
notes and a glossary of Scots vocabulary Three maps locate the
novel's key transits and locales A detailed introduction lays out
much of the historical background to the novel's four key locations
(Glasgow; London; Jamaica; Upper Canada)Includes detailed overview
of the novel's original 1831 reception; its rediscovery in the
1950s-70s, and current scholarly debates about the novel Includes
an appendix excerpting key 1831 reviews and documents from the
novel's belated Canadian revival Through the life-story of its
eloquent but depressive narrator, Bogle Corbet links the industrial
revolution in Scotland to the French Revolution, Jamaica's
plantation economy to the settlement of English Canada. A
pioneering industrial novel, colonial novel, and world systems
novel, Bogle Corbet also offers an early psychological portrait of
emigrant experience. Galt's vivid vignettes show Britain and key
British colonies at moments of political unrest and transition, and
explore the ambivalences of a world newly governed by
industrialism, capitalism, globalisation, and mass displacement.
Galt's novel thus remains a work for our own times, even as it
offers important transcontinental insights into a key historical
juncture. It has inspired eloquent champions (both nineteenth- and
twentieth-century) and continues to spark critical debate.
A former revolutionary Scotsman achieves prosperity in New York
through hard work and social networking Scholarly edition that
distinguishes the 1832 text from the 1830 texts and presents it
with a glossary of Scottish terms and historical notes Introduction
that examines Galt's techniques for combining fiction with lived
experience and that provides contextual information about
emigration from Scotland, political reform in Britain, and
socio-economic conditions and aspirations in New York at the
beginning of the nineteenth century Maps that enable readers to put
together the novel's imaginary and actual locations In Lawrie Todd
(1830; rev. ed. 1832), John Galt paints an optimistic portrait of
Scottish emigration to North America. Designed as a fictional
autobiography, the novel charts the fortunes of its protagonist
from his departure from Scotland to avoid being tried for treason
over his French Revolutionary sympathies to his rise to prosperity
as a shopkeeper in New York City and imaginary towns near
Rochester. This edition of the novel provides a contextual
introduction, explanatory notes and maps that connect Todd's life
story with boom times in New York and with Galt's own efforts at
social entrepreneurship in Canada as well as with debates over
emigration and political reforms in Britain. It sheds light on
Galt's methods of characterisation, including his use of Scots and
Yankee" speech habits and adaptation of real-life models, and on
his popularity with readers in his own time. "
Originally published in two volumes in 1816 and 1820, this
collection of biographical information and anecdotes tracing the
career of the artist Benjamin West (1738 1820) is reissued here in
one volume. Prepared by the Scottish novelist John Galt (1779
1839), it is based on the personal recollections of West himself,
yet it is acknowledged to include some embellishment. Born in
Pennsylvania and largely self-taught, West was the first American
artist to travel through Italy to improve his skill by studying
antique sculptures and old master paintings. After he came to
London in 1763, his strength as a history painter was recognised,
not least by George III, and he became a leader of the neoclassical
movement. Instrumental in establishing the Royal Academy of Arts,
West became its second president in 1792. Galt's narrative
emphasises the importance of West in the history of art in
Britain."
The Ayrshire Legatees, The Steam-Boat and The Gathering of the West
first appeared as serials in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine during
the magazine's most innovative phase. Introducing a colourful cast
of narrators and characters who present idiosyncratic perspectives
on current events as they travel between London, Edinburgh, and the
rural west of Scotland, Galt's texts experiment with observation,
dialogue, storytelling, and genre. Bringing these three
interrelated texts together in one volume for the first time, this
edition includes extensive explanatory notes that identify Galt's
allusions, references to historical events and social and cultural
practices of the period in which they are set. An appendix details
the textual changes between the Blackwood's serials and the book
versions. The editor's introduction explores the origins of Galt's
texts in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine and their reliance on
the magazine's unique dialogism, cross-talk among contributions and
inside jokes, along with the influential context of the historical
novel.
Offers Galt's most successful novel, a microcosm of fifty years of
Scottish history Provides a comprehensive Introduction by the
volume editor which tells the story of this novel's production and
reception; describes the literary and intellectual traditions on
which it drew; and explains its relation to the social and
political turmoil of the years in which it was written and
published Includes extensive Explanatory Notes which identify
Galt's biblical allusions, references to historical events, and
social and cultural practices of the period in which the novel is
set The appendices identify Galt's real-life sources for some of
his incidents, and explain the history and institutions of the
Church of Scotland as relevant to the story Maps assist the reader
to understand the geography on which the novel is acted out:
south-west Scotland and its relation to the British Isles John
Galt's Annals of the Parish is the first novel of the Industrial
Revolution. Narrated by the minister of a rural Scottish parish, it
chronicles with humour and pathos the fifty years 1760-1810 from
the perspective of ordinary people swept up in social and economic
transformation.
This volume brings together three short novels that reveal the
diversity of Galt's creative abilities. Glenfell is his first
publication in the style of Scottish fiction for which he would
become best known; Andrew of Padua, the Improvisatore is a unique
synthesis of his experiences with theatre, educational writing, and
travel; The Omen is a haunting gothic tale. With their easily
readable scope and their vivid themes, each of the tales has a
distinct charm. They cast light on significant phases of Galt's
career as a writer and reveal his versatility in experimenting with
themes, genres and styles.
Memorable for characters eccentric yet socially and economically
representative, and for scenes alternately comic and tragic, John
Galt's 1823 novel The Entail is a compelling story of greed,
anxiety, and tradition against a background of social upheaval. In
addition to making this remarkable novel available in a scholarly
edition with annotations suitable both for the general reader and
for research, the editors provide an introduction that makes its
complex legal issues--of property, marriage law, trial
procedures--accessible in the context of Scottish Romanticism and
modernisation. Situating Galt's aesthetic choices in dialogue with
the Romantic-era Scottish novel the volume discusses the text,
Galt's letters, early periodical reviews, and recent scholarship.
Through annotations that clarify Scots language and dialect as well
as legal parlance, the editors highlight the novel's comic
collisions of language and personalities, and the attention to
social transformation that Galt painstakingly, although sometimes
obliquely, details.
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