Defamiliarization in the Romantic Regional Novel: Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, Susan Ferrier, and John Galt

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-330
Author(s):  
JOSEPH KESTNER
Keyword(s):  
Maria Edgeworth ◽  
John Galt ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Susan Ferrier

Responses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819–1822

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-139
Author(s):  
Gerard Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Public Response ◽  
John Galt ◽  
Walter Scott

This essay traces the rapid agitated reception of Peterloo in Scotland, especially in the lowland west among the skilled working class. It also looks at the responses of Scottish Tory writers, in the reactionary mindsets of Walter Scott and William Motherwell and in the more nuanced treatment by John Galt. The emotion and wider political issues surrounding the release of Henry Hunt from jail are particularly focused upon via the proceedings of a convivial meeting at the Saracen Head inn in Paisley in 1822. As part of the detail of the network of Scottish public response to Peterloo, other events including especially the so-called 'Radical War' in Scotland of 1820 and its subsequent commemoration are sketched.

Speculation in the Late-Romantic Literary Marketplace

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Angela Esterhammer
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Real World ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
Stock Market Crash ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Financial Speculation ◽  
John Galt ◽  
Walter Scott

Late-Romantic writers were explicitly engaged with the marketplace, and this involvement shows itself in the themes and genres of their work. Literature of the 1820s, in particular, responds to the distressing economic events of that decade, which experienced a cycle of rampant speculation followed by a stock-market crash in 1825–6. This article examines allegories and analyses of speculation in texts by Byron, John Galt, Walter Scott, and Willibald Alexis, together with the Poyais scandal, a notorious example of real-world financial speculation. Combining fact and fiction, these rapidly written texts are early examples of ‘speculative fiction’ that illustrate the dynamics of speculation as a self-perpetuating performance that is sustained by belief and vulnerable to contingency.

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth. Some Unpublished Letters

1928 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet J. Butler ◽  
Harold Edgeworth Butler
Keyword(s):  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Maria Edgeworth ◽  
Walter Scott
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