Lawrie Todd : or The settlers in the woods / John Galt ; edited by Regina Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galt, John, 1779-1839, author.

Contributor:

Hewitt, Regina, 1959- editor.

Series:

Galt, John, 1779-1839. (Edinburgh edition) Works

The Edinburgh edition of the works of John Galt

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thorburn, Grant, 1773-1863--Fiction.

Thorburn, Grant.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliii, 499 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In <i>Lawrie Todd </i> (1830; revised edition 1832), John Galt paints an optimistic portrait of Scottish emigration to North America. Designed as a fictional autobiography, the novel charts the fortunes of its protagonist from his departure from Scotland - to avoid being tried for treason over his French Revolutionary sympathies - to his rise to prosperity as a shopkeeper in New York City and imaginary towns near Rochester. This edition of the novel provides a contextual introduction, explanatory notes, and maps that connect Todd's life story with boom times in New York and with Galt's own efforts at social entrepreneurship in Canada as well as with debates over emigration and political reforms in Britain. It sheds light on Galt's methods of characterisation, including his use of Scots and 'Yankee' speech habits and adaptation of real-life models, and on his popularity with readers in his own time.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2025).

ISBN:

1-4744-6058-5