The Provost

by John Galt

Overview

An 1822 masterpiece of rural life by the Scottish novelist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532722837
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/19/2016
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator.

Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her monographs include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (2005) and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (2012). She edited the anthologies Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (2005) and Scotland as Science Fiction (2007) and co-edited volumes such as Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward (2021) and The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature (2022). She published an edition of Mary Paterson (2015) and is currently editing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped and John Gibson Lockhart’s Reginald Dalton for EUP. With Alan Riach, she is developing the Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers.

Table of Contents

Preface to The Works of John Galt
Acknowledgements
Chronology of John Galt

Introduction

The Provost

Emendations and a Note on the Text
End-of-line Hyphens
Appendix
Explanatory Notes
Glossary