John Galt

Annals of the Parish (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Irvine, Robert P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Offers Galt's most successful novel, a microcosm of fifty years of Scottish historyProvides 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 publishedIncludes 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 setThe 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 storyMaps assist the reader to understand the geography on which the novel is acted out: south-west Scotland and its relation to the British IslesJohn 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474442428
• Artikelnr.: 72431405

Autorenporträt

John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Robert P. Irvine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Jane Austen (Routledge, 2005) and volume editor of Prince Otto (Edinburgh UP, 2014) in The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to The Works of John Galt
Acknowledgements
Chronology of John Galt
Introduction
Origins
Contemporary Reception
Later Reception
Literary Context
Historical Context
Conclusion
Annals of the Parish
Appendices
1: Sources for Incidents
2: History of the Church of Scotland
3: Maps of Signficant Locations
Essay on the Text
The Genesis of the Text
Variation between First and Second Editions
The Present Text
Emendations
End-of-line Hyphens
Explanatory Notes
Glossary