The Enlightenment and the Book

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226752542
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis The Enlightenment and the Book by : Richard B. Sher

Download or read book The Enlightenment and the Book written by Richard B. Sher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.

The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 161148801X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture by : Ronnie Young

Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture written by Ronnie Young and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.

A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books by : K.D. Duval (Firm)

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A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books from K.D. Duval, Falkland

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
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Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books from K.D. Duval, Falkland by : Kulgin Dalby Duval

Download or read book A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books from K.D. Duval, Falkland written by Kulgin Dalby Duval and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books by : K.D. Duval (Firm)

Download or read book A Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Scottish Books written by K.D. Duval (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland

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Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836815
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland by : Katharine Glover

Download or read book Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland written by Katharine Glover and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men's and women's correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the eighteenth century. It explores women's education and upbringing; their reading practices; the meanings of the social spaces and activities in which they engaged and how this fed over into the realm of politics; and the fashion for tourism at home and abroad. It also asks how elite women used polite social spaces and practices to extend their mental horizons and to form a sense of belonging to a public at a time when Scotland was among the most intellectually vibrant societies in Europe.

Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834

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Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838757161
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Book Synopsis Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834 by : Barton Swaim

Download or read book Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834 written by Barton Swaim and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.

Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502758
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I by : Aaron Garrett

Download or read book Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I written by Aaron Garrett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled, and in the solutions they proposed. This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment. In this volume a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers, frame old issues in fresh ways, and introduce new topics and questions into debates about the philosophy of this remarkable period. The contributors explore the distinctively Scottish context of this philosophical flourishing, and juxtapose the work of canonical philosophers with contemporaries now very seldom read. The outcome is a broadening-out, and a filling-in of the detail, of the picture of the philosophical scene of Scotland in the eighteenth century. General Editor: Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary

Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134774923
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by : Deborah Simonton

Download or read book Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland written by Deborah Simonton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.

Burns the Radical

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Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Burns the Radical by : Liam McIlvanney

Download or read book Burns the Radical written by Liam McIlvanney and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of poet Robert Burns's politics uncovers the intellectual context of the poet's political radicalism. Burns is revealed as a sophisticated political poet whose work draws on the democratic, contractarian ideology of Scottish Presbyterianism; the English and Irish Real Whig tradition; and the political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. Casting new light on the poet's education and his early reading, this book provides detailed new readings of Burns's major poems and offers research on his links with Irish poets and radicals, providing a major reinterpretation of the man who is coming to be recognized as the poet laureate of the radical Enlightenment.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of 18th Century Scottish Books at the Signet Library, Edinburgh

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Book Synopsis Catalogue of an Exhibition of 18th Century Scottish Books at the Signet Library, Edinburgh by : Festival of Britain, 1951. Scottish Committee

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Feeling British

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756782
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)

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Book Synopsis Feeling British by : Evan Gottlieb

Download or read book Feeling British written by Evan Gottlieb and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling British argues that the discourse of sympathy both encourages and problematizes a sense of shared national identity in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture. Although the 1707 Act of Union officially joined England and Scotland, government policy alone could not overcome centuries of feuding and ill will between these nations. Accordingly, the literary public sphere became a vital arena for the development and promotion of a new national identity, Britishness. Feeling British starts by examining the political implications of the Scottish Enlightenment's theorizations of sympathy the mechanism by which emotions are shared between people. From these philosophical beginnings, this study tracks how sympathetic discourse is deployed by a variety of authors - including Defoe, Smollett, Johnson, Wordsworth, and Scott - invested in constructing, but also in questioning, an inclusive sense of what it means to be British.

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628622
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by : Ian Brown

Download or read book Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.

Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004294945
Total Pages : 461 pages
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Book Synopsis Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by : John Finlay

Download or read book Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland written by John Finlay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first monograph to analyse the workings of Scotland’s legal profession in its early modern European context. It is a comprehensive survey of lawyers working in the local and central courts; investigating how they interacted with their clients and with each other, the legal principles governing ethical practice, and how they fulfilled a social role through providing free services to the poor and also services to town councils and other corporations. Based heavily on a wide range of archival sources, and reflecting the contemporary importance of local societies of lawyers, John Finlay offers a groundbreaking yet accessible study of the eighteenth-century legal profession which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of Enlightenment Scotland.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of 18th-century Scottish Books at the Signet Library, Edinburgh

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Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century

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Publisher : Trieste Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780649762415
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Book Synopsis Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century by : George Eyre-Todd

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The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

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Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854195
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Book Synopsis The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 by : Alastair J. Mann

Download or read book The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 written by Alastair J. Mann and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2000-12-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly large, consisting of over 150 printers and over 400 booksellers, but its rate of growth was not constant as it was buffeted by the winds of economic and political circumstances. It is the public, not private world of book dissemination that is examined. Emphsis is placed more on supply than on demand. It is shown that the unique qualities of the printed book, with its blend of commerce and technology on the one hand, and intellect and ideology on the other, ensured that authority - burghs, church, governemt (crown and executive) and law courts - reacted with a complex response of liberty and prohibition. So it was for all nations experiencing the arrival of printing, but Scotland had its own particular range of dynamics, a distinct Scottish tradition.