Entail
or The Lairds of Grippy
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2022
424 pages
978-1-4744-5727-9 (ISBN)
Description
Galt's tragi-comic novel of conflicted desires presented in historical, legal, and local contexts.
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06/2022
Edinburgh University Press
€131.50
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Content
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to The Works of John Galt
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of John Galt
- Introduction
- Origins of the Story
- Historical Background
- Language
- Names
- Comedy and Tragedy
- Entails: Law and Literature
- Reception
- A Real-Life Entail Story
- The Entail
- Emendations
- End-of-Line Hyphens
- Appendices
- 1: Family Trees
- 2: Maps of Significant Locations
- 3: Timeline of Historical and Fictional Events
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossary
