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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