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Studies in Scottish Literature

John Galt

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Debating Insurrection In Galt's Ringan Gilhaize, Padma Rangarajan Aug 2020

Debating Insurrection In Galt's Ringan Gilhaize, Padma Rangarajan

Studies in Scottish Literature

Argues that John Galt's novel Ringan Gilhaize (1823), answering Walter Scott's Old Mortality (1816), a counternarrative about the Scottish Covenanters, their defeat at Bothwell Brig (1679), and the history of the Presbyterian establishment in Scotland, attempts a delicate dialectic, less imitative homage to Scott than "winking ventriloquism," presenting three generations of filial and social history filtered through the perspective of a single, idiosyncratic narrative voice,


Regina Hewitt, Ed., John Galt: Observations And Conjectures, Anthony Jarrells Nov 2014

Regina Hewitt, Ed., John Galt: Observations And Conjectures, Anthony Jarrells

Studies in Scottish Literature

Review of collection of scholarly essays on the Scottish novelist and poet John Galt (1779-1839), who was also a pioneer in Canadian fiction.