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.

In the following essay, Costain describes Galt's positive representation of industrial progress in his prose fiction.

In the following essay, Costain investigates Galt's indebtedness to the social, moral, and historical thought of the Scottish Realists.

In the following essay, Wilson offers a stylistic analysis of Ringan Gilhaize, illuminated by Galt's manuscript of the novel.

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.

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.

In the following essay, Waterston discusses Galt's unromantic, middle-class novel Bogle Corbet as it illustrates qualities of Canadian and Scottish life.