Rothelan : A Romance of the English Histories (The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt)

Galt, John/ Kozaczka, Adam (EDT)/ Simmons, Clare A. (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 424 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399531320

Full Description

Set in England, Scotland and France during the fourteenth century, John Galt's Rothelan (1824) engages with major historical contexts including the Black Plague pandemic, Anglo-Scottish warfare and the Hundred Years' War. Remarkable in its time for its representation of an alternative Jewish history showing sympathy for Jewish communities and for taking women's agency seriously, the novel tells a story of usurped inheritance while narrating major historical events from the reign of King Edward III. Present-day students of literature may appreciate the novel's metafictional play, including a found text device and a chapter that jokingly mocks a Walter Scott novel. Presented for the first time in a modern, annotated edition, this authoritative text features background information and appendices pertaining to the fourteenth century and to John Galt himself in the year preceding the novel's publication.

Contents

Preface to The Works of John Galt
Acknowledgements
Chronology of John Galt
Introduction
Origins of the Story
Reception and the Historical Form
Characterization
Metafiction
Editions, Translations, and Textual Matters
Rothelan; a Romance of the English Histories
Emendations
End-of-line Hyphens
Appendices
1: Timeline of Historical and Fictional Events
2: Plays about Edward III
3: The Controversy about the Music
4: Gabriel de Glowr
Explanatory Notes
Glossary