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Bogle Corbet : or The Emigrants / John Galt; ed. by Katie Trumpener.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galt, John, Author.
- Series:
- The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt Series
- The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt : EEWJG
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (576 p.) : 4 B/W illustrations 4 black & white illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The first scholarly edition of Bogle CorbetIncludes explanatory notes and a glossary of Scots vocabularyThree maps locate the novel's key transits and localesA detailed introduction lays out much of the historical background to the novel's four key locations (Glasgow; London; Jamaica; Upper Canada)Includes detailed overview of the novel's original 1831 reception; its rediscovery in the 1950s-70s, and current scholarly debates about the novelIncludes an appendix excerpting key 1831 reviews and documents from the novel's belated Canadian revivalThrough the life-story of its eloquent but depressive narrator, Bogle Corbet links the industrial revolution in Scotland to the French Revolution, Jamaica's plantation economy to the settlement of English Canada. A pioneering industrial novel, colonial novel, and world systems novel, Bogle Corbet also offers an early psychological portrait of emigrant experience. Galt's vivid vignettes show Britain and key British colonies at moments of political unrest and transition, and explore the ambivalences of a world newly governed by industrialism, capitalism, globalisation, and mass displacement. Galt's novel thus remains a work for our own times, even as it offers important transcontinental insights into a key historical juncture. It has inspired eloquent champions (both nineteenth- and twentieth-century) and continues to spark critical debate.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to The Works of John Galt
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of John Galt
- Introduction
- Origins
- Historical Contexts
- Literary Contexts
- Reception
- Bogle Corbet
- or, The Emigrants Vol I
- Preface
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII
- Chapter XXXIV
- Chapter XXXV
- Chapter XXXVI
- Chapter XXXVII
- Chapter XXXVIII
- or, The Emigrants Vol II
- Chapter XXXIX
- or, The Emigrants Vol III
- Chapter XXII.
- Chapter XXIII
- Emendations
- End-of-line Hyphens
- Appendices
- 1: Excerpts from Reviews and Reception
- 2: Maps of Significant Locations
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781474449496
- 1474449492
- 9781474449489
- 1474449484
- OCLC:
- 1432589823
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