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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.
William Wordsworth was engaged with legal discourse and
institutions throughout his career. This study looks at the place
of poetry as a professional and social force amid national debates
on legal rights, public policy and economic order, in Wordsworth's
day.
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