John Galt (17791839) 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 Romanticism are now often overlooked. Yet his reputation has been slowly growing, and he has attracted critical interest as both a political novelist and a chronicler of Scottish life. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION builds on a steady stream of recent scholarship, and examines Galts writings in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time.
Acknowledgements
Series Editors Preface
A Brief Biography of John Galt
Introduction (Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd)
1. John Galts Ayrshire
(Andrew OHagan)
2. Satire, Hypocrisy, and the AyrshireRenfrewshire
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
Insiders 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 Galts Tales of the
West (Anthony Jarrells)
10. Gender and the Short Story in the Twilight Years
(Gerard Carruthers) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index
Gerard Carruthers holds the Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.
Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.
