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This volume offers a revaluation of the work of Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt. Galt traveled throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds and founded the Canadian city of Guelph while remaining in touch with local cultures and politics in Scotland and England. He wrote fiction, drama, and biography based on his personal observations of life and in ways that associated him with the "theoretical" or "conjectural" methods of Scottish Enlightenment historiographers. Galt's insights into the societies he inhabited and visited, his perceptions of political extremism and class conflict, his attitudes toward community building and progress, his convictions about determinism and historical revisionism, his strategies for manipulating literary genres and readers' responses, and his ambivalence about the value of literature deserve consideration in light of new thinking in our own fields about what constitutes social knowledge and viable ways to represent it. The essays in this volume examine Galt's work in light of the convergence of literature, history, and social theory in Scottish Enlightenment and Romantic-era culture and in our own interdisciplinary environment. Discussing Galt's work and significance in the many areas, genres, and contexts in which he figures, they broaden the circle of contacts with whom we associate Galt, moving from expected comparisons with contemporaries Walter Scott and James Hogg to unexpected links with such later authors and social thinkers as George Douglas Brown and Harriet Martineau. Moreover, these essays expand the repertoire of works studied, offering the first extended analyses of Eben Erskine, Rothelan, and the Travels and Observations of Hareach, the Wandering Jew along with new readings of Annals of the Parish, Bogle Corbet, and Ringan Gilhaize. Overall, the essays draw out the implications of Galt's practices and relations as a journalist, dramatist, critic, biographer, and novelist, developing grounded conjectures about their significance in Galt's time and our own.
Contents
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Observations and Conjectures on John Galt's Place in Scottish
Enlightenment and Romantic-era Studies by Regina Hewitt
Section I. Progress, Memory, and Communities
Chapter 2: Remembering John Galt by Gerard Carruthers
Chapter 3: Altered States: Galt, Serial Fiction, and the Romantic Miscellany by Ian Duncan
Chapter 4: The Sense of No Ending: John Galt and the Travels of Commoners and Kings in "The
Steam-Boat" and "The Gathering of the West" by Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Section
II. Conflict and Consensus
Chapter 5: John Galt's Annals of the Parish and the Strategies of Tales of Locale by Martha Bohrer
Chapter 6: The Corrective Detective: Genre and Masculinity in Sir Andrew Wylie of that Ilk by Sharon Alker
Chapter 7: Trauma and Witness in Ringan Gilhaize by Alyson Bardsley
Section III. Justice and Tolerance
Chapter 8: Feudal Days: John Galt's Ambivalent Medievalism by Clare A. Simmons
Chapter 9: John Galt's Travels and Observations of Hareach, the Wandering Jew:
History and Identity; Narrative and Nation by Elizabeth Kraft
Chapter 10: Galt and the Theater by Frederick Burwick
Chapter 11: John Galt's Angular Magazinity by Robert Morrison
Section IV. Identities and Ethics
Chapter 12: Public Benefits and Private Gains: The Provost and The Member by H. B. de Groot
Chapter 13: Time, Emigration, and the Circum-Atlantic World: John Galt's Bogle Corbet by Kenneth McNeil
Chapter 14: Agency, Destiny, and National Character: John Galt and Europe by Angela Esterhammer
Chapter 15: John Galt, Harriet Martineau, and the Role of the Social Theorist by Regina Hewitt
Contributors
Index
