Can I read Bogle Corbet : New Canadian Library : No. 135 on EtoBox?

Bogle Corbet : New Canadian Library : No. 135 by John Galt is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bogle Corbet : New Canadian Library : No. 135 about?

The first scholarly edition of Bogle Corbet : * Includes explanatory notes and a glossary of Scots vocabulary; * Three maps locate the novels key transits and locales; * A detailed introduction lays out much of the historical background to the novels four key locations (Glasgow; London; Jamaica; Upper Canada); * Includes detailed overview of the novels original 1831 reception; its rediscovery in the 1950s-70s, and current scholarly debates about the novel; * Includes an appendix excerpting key 1831 reviews and documents from the novels belated Canadian revival. Through the life-story of its eloquent but depressive narrator, Bogle Corbet links the industrial revolution in Scotland to the French Revolution, Jamaicas plantation economy to the settlement of English Canada. A pioneering industrial novel, colonial novel, and world systems novel, Bogle Corbet also offers an early psychological portrait of emigrant experience. Galts vivid vignettes show Britain and key British colonies at moments of political unrest and transition, and explore the ambivalences of a world newly governed by industrialism, capitalism, globalisation, and mass displacement. Galts novel thus remains a work fo

Author

John Galt

Publisher

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771092459

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Humanities