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Debating Insurrection In Galt's Ringan Gilhaize, Padma Rangarajan
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
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.