John Galt's Annals of the Parish is the first novel of the Industrial Revolution. Maps assist the reader to understand the geography on which the novel is acted out: south-west Scotland and its relation to the British Isles.
The appendices identify Galt's real-life sources for some of his incidents, and explain the history and institutions of the Church of Scotland as relevant to the story. Includes extensive Explanatory Notes which identify Galt's biblical allusions, references to historical events, and social and cultural practices of the period in which the novel is set. Provides a comprehensive Introduction by the volume editor which tells the story of this novel's production and reception describes the literary and intellectual traditions on which it drew and explains its relation to the social and political turmoil of the years in which it was written and published.
Offers Galt's most successful novel, a microcosm of fifty years of Scottish history.
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