International Companion to John Galt

<p>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.</p>