The Entail

Galt’s tragi-comic novel of conflicted desires presented in historical, legal, and local contexts The first scholarly edition to focus on the complex legal nuances that pervade the novel, including Scottish entails, court procedure, and the figure of the lawyerAn introduction that explores—and notes offering easy access to—the growing research on John Galt, his narrative techniques, and cultural interventions of one of the first generational novels to sweep over 100 years of social changeA criti