Scottish author John Galt (1779-1839) wrote extensively during the early 1800s, producing novels as well as works of drama, poetry, art criticism, and biography. He also worked as a lobbyist and found...
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Annals of the Parish (1821) was the Scottish novel that established John Galt as a major proponent of regional realism; along with books such as Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village (1824), Annals offer...
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Considering his vast and diversified literary output, as well as his colorful career as a businessman and promoter of various enterprises, it is ironic that John Galt, a Scots novelist contemporaneous...
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John Galt was born in Irvine, in the county of Ayrshire, Scotland, on 2 May 1779. His father, also named John, was master of a West Indian trading vessel; Galt described him as remarkably handsome, ea...
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In the following essay, Costain describes Galt's positive representation of industrial progress in his prose fiction.
Unlike most novelists in the early nineteenth century, John Galt was con...
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In the following essay, Griffith considers generic difficulties related to Galt's fiction and his role in the early formation of the realist short story.
When Brander Matthews proclaimed the...
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In the following essay, Waterston discusses Galt's unromantic, middle-class novel Bogle Corbet as it illustrates qualities of Canadian and Scottish life.
“Vertical Mosaic” is a...
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In the following essay, Costain investigates Galt's indebtedness to the social, moral, and historical thought of the Scottish Realists.
When, in The Ayrshire Legatees, the Rev. Dr Pringle ar...
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In the following essay, McClure details Galt's use of Scots dialect to delineate his characters and realistically depict eighteenth-century Scottish society in The Entail.
The Entail was reg...
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In the following essay, Wilson offers a stylistic analysis of Ringan Gilhaize, illuminated by Galt's manuscript of the novel.
In 1969 Ian Gordon discovered the MS. of John Galt's nove...
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In the following essay, Gordon comments on Galt's popular novel The Ayrshire Legatees and the revisions it underwent in the transition from periodical publication to novel form.
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Almost immediately following the fire at the Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero in August that left two firefighters dead, a harsh light began to shine on a Bronx-based subcontractor with no exp...
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A 15-foot pipe fell off a skyscraper being dismantled near the World Trade Center site and plunged through the roof of a nearby firehouse Thursday, injuring two firefighters, officials said.Demolit...
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A heavy piece of construction equipment plummeted 23 stories Thursday from the site of last week's deadly fire at ground zero, crashing through a shed and hitting two firefighters in another accide...
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Wanted: A demolition company willing to tear down a building contaminated with asbestos that some say is the most difficult project in the most difficult construction city in the world.With buildin...
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The August blaze that killed two firefighters at a condemned skyscraper across from ground zero exposed incompetence at multiple government agencies that either owned it or oversaw its long-delayed...
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Almost five months after a deadly fire halted deconstruction on the former Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero, the state has picked a new contractor to oversee its demolition, New York-based LVI...
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Prosecutors opened a criminal investigation Tuesday into the blaze that killed two firefighters at a ground zero skyscraper that had a broken water supply system as it was being dismantled.The defu...
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Construction equipment fell off a condemned skyscraper at the World Trade Center site Thursday, injuring two firefighters patrolling the area after a deadly blaze last week at the same building.A p...
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Fire marshals investigating a blaze that killed two firefighters in an abandoned ground zero building focused Monday on a failed water network. Recently issued permits had required the system to be...
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John Galt
John Galt
Critical Essay by Keith M. Costain
Fire Illuminates Objectivist Cult of Galt
