Thanks to Angela Esterhammer’s inspired research and deft scholarship, this volume of Galt’s Transatlantic writings assembles works that have been scattered among periodicals and manuscripts or obscured by pseudonymous publication. Her comprehensive introduction and informative notes lead the way to a fresh assessment of Galt’s position in international affairs.

- Regina Hewitt, University of South Florida,

John Galt spent less than three years on the American continent, but his attention was directed toward it his entire life. In fictional tales about emigrants, settlers and Indigenous peoples, and in essays about colonisation, trade, slavery and emancipation, he addressed the past, present and future of transatlantic relationships. By collecting and contextualising all of his short tales alongside his non-fiction essays about North America and the Caribbean, this volume presents a more expansive and complete picture than ever before of Galt's transatlantic engagements. It includes writings that circulated widely in the nineteenth century but have since been lost from view, as well as new stories from his extant manuscripts that are published here for the first time.
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The first complete scholarly edition of Galt’s short fiction and essays on transatlantic themes, including never before published manuscript texts.
Preface to The Works of John Galt Acknowledgements Chronology of John Galt Introduction Historical and Biographical Contexts Literary Contexts and Publication Venue American Traditions, Canadian Sketches, and Indigenous Encounters Societal Contexts: British and Americans The Whole West Indian Question Circulation, Reception, and Valediction 1. A Statistical Account of Upper Canada 2. America 3. Bandana on Emigration [1824] 4. Bandana on Colonial Undertakings 5. Bandana on Emigration [1826] 6. Colonial Discontent 7. Thoughts on the Times 8. Letters from New York 9. The Hurons – A Canadian Tale 10. The Colonial Question 11. The Spectre Ship of Salem 12. The Bell of St. Regis 13. Canadian Affairs 14. American Traditions [Cherockee] 15. The New Atlantis: An American Legend 16. Guelph in Upper Canada 17. Letters on West Indian Slavery 18. Means of Lessening the West Indian Distress 19. The Early Missionaries; or, The Discovery of the Falls of Niagara 20. The First Settlers on the Ohio: An American Story 21. The British North American Provinces 22. American Traditions [The Indian and the Hunter] 23. On the Domestic Manners of the British 24.The Canada Corn Trade 25. Scotch and Yankees. A Caricature 26. The British and Americans 27. The Whole West Indian Question 28. Outline of a Plan 29. Colonization 30. Mr Galt’s Plan of Settling the Boundary Question with the Americans. 31. The Metropolitan Emigrant 32. Letters Concerning Projects of Improvement for Upper Canada 33. American Diplomacy 34. The Banished Covenanters 35. The Unknown Explorer of Upper Canada A Note on the Texts Emendations End-of-line Hyphens Explanatory Notes
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Provides accurate texts based on original print editions and manuscripts

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ISBN
9781399500739
Publisert
2025-07-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
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216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
596

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John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Angela Esterhammer, FRSC, is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity (2020), Romanticism and Improvisation, 1750-1850 (2008), The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (2000), and numerous articles on British and European Romantic poetry, fiction, and print culture. She is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt and previously edited Galt’s Three Short Novels: Glenfell; Andrew of Padua, the Improvisatore; The Omen for the series.