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Through the life-story of its eloquent but depressive narrator, Bogle Corbet links the industrial revolution in Scotland to the French Revolution, Jamaica's plantation economy to the settlement of English Canada. A pioneering industrial novel, colonial novel, and world systems novel, Bogle Corbet also offers an early psychological portrait of emigrant experience. Galt's vivid vignettes show Britain and key British colonies at moments of political unrest and transition, and explore the ambivalences of a world newly governed by industrialism, capitalism, globalisation, and mass displacement. Galt's novel thus remains a work for our own times, even as it offers important transcontinental insights into a key historical juncture. It has inspired eloquent champions (both nineteenth- and twentieth-century) and continues to spark critical debate. [bio]Katie Trumpener is Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University.
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John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator.Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University. Her publications include Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire (Princeton UP, 1997) and The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period, co-edited with Richard Maxwell (CUP, 2008).
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The first scholarly edition of Bogle Corbet
