Dialectics of Improvement : : Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 / / Gerard Lee McKeever.
WINNER of the BARS First Book Prize 2021!Explores the nature of Scottish Romanticism through its relationship to improvementProvides new insight into the concept of ‘improvement’Advances current thinking on Scottish RomanticismIdentifies how improvement was involved in key aesthetic innovations in t...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Robert Burns and ‘Circling Time’
- Chapter 2 Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott
- Chapter 3 ‘The Great Moral Object’ in Joanna Baillie’s Drama
- Chapter 4 The Story of John Galt’s Scottish Novels
- Coda: ‘There is no end to machinery’
- Bibliography
- Index