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John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. Although a prolific writer, and much admired in his own lifetime, Galt has never achieved comparable levels of literary fame, and his works – poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism – are now often overlooked. Yet his reputation has been slowly growing, and he has attracted critical interest as both a political novelist and a chronicler of Scottish life. This International Companion builds on a steady stream of recent scholarship, and examines Galt’s writings in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Series Editors’ Preface
A Brief Biography of John Galt
Introduction (Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd)

• John Galt’s Ayrshire (Andrew O’Hagan)
• Satire, Hypocrisy, and the Ayrshire–Renfrewshire Enlightenment (Colin Kidd)
• Finding Galt in Glasgow (Craig Lamont)
• Galt the Speculator: Sir Andrew Wylie, The Entail, and Lawrie Todd (Angela Esterhammer)
• How John Galt Wrote North America (Ian McGhee)
• Commemorating the Covenanters in Ringan Gilhaize (Alison Lumsden)
• The Insider’s Eye in the Age of Improvement, Urbanisation, and Revolution (Christopher A. Whatley)
• Pioneering the Political Novel in English (Gordon Millar)
• Reading for Something Other than the Plot in Galt’s ‘Tales of the West’ (Anthony Jarrells)
• Gender and the Short Story in the Twilight Years (Gerard Carruthers)

Endnotes
Further Reading 
Notes on Contributors
Index

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Cover image: Charles Grey, portrait of John Galt. Image courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery