Lawrie Todd - Or the Settlers in the Woods

Informationen zum Autor John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Klappentext [Front cover flap copy] In Lawrie Todd (1830; rev. ed. 1832), John Galt paints an optimistic portrait of Scottish emigration to North America. Designed as a fictional autobiography, the novel charts the fortunes of its protagonist from his departure from Scotland - to avoid being tried for treason over his French Revolutionary sympathies - to his rise to prosperity as a shopkeeper in New York City and imaginary towns near Rochester. This edition of the novel provides a contextual introduction, explanatory notes, and maps that connect Todd's life story with boom times in New York and with Galt's own efforts at social entrepreneurship in Canada as well as with debates over emigration and political reforms in Britain. It sheds light on Galt's methods of characterisation, including his use of Scots and 'Yankee' speech habits and adaptation of real-life models, and on his popularity with readers in his own time. Zusammenfassung A former revolutionary Scotsman achieves prosperity in New York through hard work and social networking

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Galt
• Mitarbeit: Regina Hewitt (Herausgeber), Regina (Professor of English Hewitt (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781474460576
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-6057-6
• Seiten: 544
• Serien: The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt; The Edinburgh Edition of the W
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur