Abstract
Argues that John Galt's novel Ringan Gilhaize (1823), answering Walter Scott's Old Mortality (1816), a counternarrative about the Scottish Covenanters, their defeat at Bothwell Brig (1679), and the history of the Presbyterian establishment in Scotland, attempts a delicate dialectic, less imitative homage to Scott than "winking ventriloquism," presenting three generations of filial and social history filtered through the perspective of a single, idiosyncratic narrative voice,
Recommended Citation
Rangarajan, Padma
(2020)
"Debating Insurrection in Galt's Ringan Gilhaize,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 46:
Iss.
1, 7–13.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol46/iss1/4