Lawrie Todd : or The Settlers in the Woods
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt
ISBN-10
1474460577
ISBN-13
9781474460576
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 18th, 2023
Print length
544 Pages
Weight
806 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.20 x 4.20 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
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A former revolutionary Scotsman achieves prosperity in New York through hard work and social networking
In Lawrie Todd (1830; rev. ed. 1832), John Galt paints an optimistic portrait of Scottish emigration to North America. Designed as a fictional autobiography, the novel charts the fortunes of its protagonist from his departure from Scotland—to avoid being tried for treason over his French Revolutionary sympathies—to his rise to prosperity as a shopkeeper in New York City and imaginary towns near Rochester. This edition of the novel provides a contextual introduction, explanatory notes, and maps that connect Todd’s life story with boom times in New York and with Galt’s own efforts at social entrepreneurship in Canada as well as with debates over emigration and political reforms in Britain. It sheds light on Galt’s methods of characterisation, including his use of Scots and 'Yankee' speech habits and adaptation of real-life models, and on his popularity with readers in his own time.
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