Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 Robert Burns and ‘Circling Time’
- 2 Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott
- 3 ‘The Great Moral Object’ in Joanna Baillie’s Drama
- 4 The Story of John Galt’s Scottish Novels
- Coda: ‘There is no end to machinery’
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 Robert Burns and ‘Circling Time’
- 2 Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott
- 3 ‘The Great Moral Object’ in Joanna Baillie’s Drama
- 4 The Story of John Galt’s Scottish Novels
- Coda: ‘There is no end to machinery’
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Dialectics of ImprovementScottish Romanticism, 1786–1831, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020