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The entail : or The lairds of Grippy / John Galt ; edited by Mark Schoenfield and Clare A. Simmons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galt, John, 1779-1839, author.
- Series:
- The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt
- The Edinburgh edition of the works of John Galt
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scotland--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (liii, 502 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Memorable for characters eccentric yet socially and economically representative, and for scenes alternately comic and tragic, John Galt's 1823 novel <i>The Entail</i> is a compelling story of greed, anxiety, and tradition against a background of social upheaval. In addition to making this remarkable novel available in a scholarly edition with annotations suitable both for the general reader and for research, the editors provide an introduction that makes its complex legal issues - of property, marriage law, trial procedures - accessible in the context of Scottish Romanticism and modernisation. Situating Galt's aesthetic choices in dialogue with the Romantic-era Scottish novel the volume discusses the text, Galt's letters, early periodical reviews, and recent scholarship. Through annotations that clarify Scots language and dialect as well as legal parlance, the editors highlight the novel's comic collisions of language and personalities, and the attention to social transformation that Galt painstakingly, although sometimes obliquely, details.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF THE WORKS OF JOHN GALT
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CHRONOLOGY OF JOHN GALT
- INTRODUCTION
- The Entail. Vol I
- Acknowledgements
- CHAP. I
- CHAP. II
- CHAP. III
- CHAP. IV
- CHAP. V
- CHAP. VI
- CHAP. VII
- CHAP. VIII
- CHAP. IX
- CHAP. X
- CHAP. XI
- CHAP. XII
- CHAP. XIII
- CHAP. XIV
- CHAP. XV
- CHAP. XVI
- CHAP. XVII
- CHAP. XVIII
- CHAP. XIX
- CHAP. XX
- CHAP. XXI
- CHAP. XXII
- CHAP. XXIII
- CHAP. XXIV
- CHAP. XXV
- CHAP. XXVI
- CHAP. XXVII
- CHAP. XXVIII
- CHAP. XXIX
- CHAP. XXX
- CHAP. XXXI
- CHAP. XXXII
- CHAP. XXXIII
- CHAP. XXXIV
- CHAP. XXXV
- CHAP. XXXVI
- The Entail. Vol. II
- The Entail. Vol III
- EMENDATIONS
- END-OF-LINE HYPHENS
- APPENDIX 1: FAMILY TREES
- APPENDIX 2: MAPS OF SIGNIFICANT LOCATIONS IN THE ENTAIL
- APPENDIX 3: TIMELINE OF HISTORICAL AND FICTIONAL EVENTS
- EXPLANATORY NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Oct 2023).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-5728-2
- 1-4744-5727-4
- OCLC:
- 1343104075
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