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John Galt (1779-1839) was among the most popular and prolific Scottish writers of the nineteenth century. He wrote in a panoply of forms and genres about a great variety of topics and settings, drawing on his experiences of living, working, and travelling in Scotland and England, in Europe and the Mediterranean, and in North America. While he is best known for his humorous tales and serious sagas about Scottish life, his fiction spans many other genres including historical novels, gothic tales, political satire, travel narratives, and short stories. The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt is the first-ever scholarly edition of Galt’s fiction; it presents a wide range of Galt’s works, some of which have never been reprinted. The series contains authoritative texts together with materials that add to an appreciation of Galt’s historical context, his cultural heritage, and his overall importance within literary history.

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3 results in The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt

Lawrie Todd
  • or The Settlers in the Woods
  • John Galt
  • Edited by Regina Hewitt
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    11 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2023
  • In Lawrie Todd (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.

The Entail
  • Or, The Lairds of Grippy
  • John Galt
  • Edited by Mark Schoenfield, Clare Simmons
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    25 October 2023
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022
  • Memorable for characters eccentric yet socially and economically representative, and for scenes alternately comic and tragic, John Galt's 1823 novel The Entail 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.

The Ayrshire Legatees, The Steam-Boat, The Gathering of the West
  • John Galt
  • Edited by Mark Parker
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    25 October 2023
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022
  • The Ayrshire Legatees, The Steam-Boat and The Gathering of the West first appeared as serials in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine during the magazine's most innovative phase. Introducing a colourful cast of narrators and characters who present idiosyncratic perspectives on current events as they travel between London, Edinburgh, and the rural west of Scotland, Galt's texts experiment with observation, dialogue, storytelling, and genre. Bringing these three interrelated texts together in one volume for the first time, this edition includes extensive explanatory notes that identify Galt's allusions, references to historical events and social and cultural practices of the period in which they are set. An appendix details the textual changes between the Blackwood's serials and the book versions. The editor's introduction explores the origins of Galt's texts in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine and their reliance on the magazine's unique dialogism, cross-talk among contributions and inside jokes, along with the influential context of the historical novel.