SOURCE: McClure, J. D. “The Language of The Entail.” Scottish Literary Journal 8, no. 1 (May 1981): 30-51.
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.
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