Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831

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 novelThis book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With c...