Lawrie Todd : or The Settlers in the Woods

Name: Lawrie Todd
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781474460576
Price: 17100 KES
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ISBN: 9781474460576

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Format Hardback

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 general Classic 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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