
The Entail
or The Lairds of Grippy
John Galt(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 14. June 2022
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-1-4744-5726-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Galt's most ambitious foray into novelistic fiction gains new vitality in this definitive edition. Opening up The Entail for current readers, the editors provide a lucid introduction that brings into focus Galt's mobilisation of an intergenerational family saga to track the pressures of modernisation in eighteenth-century Scotland. A judiciously chosen apparatus supplements the text to locate and clarify its innovative force. -- Ina Ferris, University of OttawaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-5726-2 (9781474457262)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Persons
John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Mark Schoenfield is a Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where he specialises in law and literature and periodical culture. The author of The Professional Wordsworth (Georgia, 1996) and British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The "Literary Lower Empire" (Palgrave, 2009), a co-winner of the Colby Prize, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for research toward his current project on the Culture of Litigation, 1770-1835. Clare Simmons is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University, USA, and is a specialist in the novel, medievalism and nineteenth-century culture. The former editor of Prose Studies, Simmons is most recently the author of Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (2011) and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year (2021) and the winner of an Armstrong Browning Library Fellowship toward the completion of the latter. She is also the editor of The Entail in the Galt series.
Author
Editor
Professor of EnglishVanderbilt University
Professor of EnglishOhio State University
Content
Preface to The Works of John GaltAcknowledgementsChronology of John Galt
IntroductionOrigins of the StoryHistorical BackgroundLanguageNamesComedy and TragedyEntails: Law and LiteratureReceptionA Real-Life Entail Story
The EntailEmendationsEnd-of-line Hyphens
Appendices1: Family Trees2: Maps of Significant Locations3: Timeline of Historical and Fictional EventsExplanatory NotesGlossary
IntroductionOrigins of the StoryHistorical BackgroundLanguageNamesComedy and TragedyEntails: Law and LiteratureReceptionA Real-Life Entail Story
The EntailEmendationsEnd-of-line Hyphens
Appendices1: Family Trees2: Maps of Significant Locations3: Timeline of Historical and Fictional EventsExplanatory NotesGlossary

