Title Dialectics of improvement : Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 / Gerard Lee McKeever

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism Ser Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism Ser Contents Intro -- 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 Summary This publication develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2020) SUBJECT Baillie, Joanna 1762-1851 gnd Burns, Robert 1759-1796 gnd Galt, John 1779-1839 gnd Hogg, James 1770-1835 gnd Scott, Walter 1771-1832 gnd Subject Romanticism -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century Romanticism -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Romanticism Scottish literature Romantik Verbesserung Scotland Schottland Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474441698 1474441696 147444167X 9781474441674 9781474441704 147444170X

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