Three Short Novels

John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Angela Esterhammer is currently Principal of Victoria College and a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Romanticism and Improvisation, 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2008), The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 2000) and Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake (University of Toronto Press, 1994), the editor of Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake, Volume 16 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye (University of Toronto Press, 2005) and Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (John Benjamins, 2002), and the co-editor, with Alexander J. Dick, of Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2009). She has also edited a critical edition of Two Stories of Prague, by R. M. Rilke (University Press of New England, 1994).