Title Dialectics of improvement : Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 / Gerard Lee McKeever.

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Description	1 online resource
Series	Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism Ser.
	Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism Ser.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	This publication develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context.
Contents	Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Robert Burns and 'Circling Time' -- Chapter 2 Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott -- Chapter 3 'The Great Moral Object' in Joanna Baillie's Drama -- Chapter 4 The Story of John Galt's Scottish Novels -- Coda: 'There is no end to machinery' -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject	Romanticism -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
	Romanticism -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
	Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Romanticism
	Scottish literature
	Scotland https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRx4M4xHbtFTRj7p6BmM
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History
Other Form:	Print version: 147444167X 9781474441674 (OCoLC)1117550299
ISBN	9781474441698 (electronic book)
	1474441696 (electronic book)
	147444167X
	9781474441674
	147444167X
	9781474441674
	9781474441704 Electronic book (EPUB format)
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