Dialectics of Improvement

WINNER of the BARS First Book Prize 2021! Explores the nature of Scottish Romanticism through its relationship to improvement Provides new insight into the concept of ‘improvement’Advances current thinking on Scottish RomanticismIdentifies how improvement was involved in key aesthetic innovations in the periodIncludes case studies across poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Roma