The Provost

by John Galt

Book Overview

Just out of earshot, in countless nineteenth-century novels, runs the hum of daily labour by house servants, the upward striving of local worthies. The background of many a Jane Austen novel roils with war; Walter Scott writes in the time of radical weavers. It was John Galt, living between the prosperous Royal Borough of Ivrine, the intensity of technological Greenock, and the politics of London who brought this background into the foreground. Provost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474443613
• ISBN13: 9781474443616
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"