The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.09.2008 - 842 Seiten 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. |
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... Elliot and John Bell in Edinburgh, who also tried to secure worthy Scottish authors and to copublish their books across the London– Edinburgh axis. Chapter 6 explores the career of Strahan and Cadell's most important Edinburgh ...
... Elliot in July 1757. “Is it not strange,” he continued, “that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our Parliaments, our independent Government, even the Presence of our chief Nobility, are unhappy in our Accent and Pronuncia- tion ...
... Elliot quoted at the beginning of this chapter articulates Hume's uneasiness about speak- ing a language that he considered an “unhappy” and “very corrupt” dia- lect of English. Similarly, the letter to Millar that laid out the plan for ...
... ) . Thus , in the early 1780s a “ gentleman ” 24. [ Strahan and Cadell ] , Books Printed for W. Strahan , and T. Cadell in the Strand , 8 . 26. Genette, Paratexts, xviii. 33. Home to Elliot, 1 June. Composing the Scottish Enlightenment • ...
... George Vertue after a painting by Pope's friend Charles Jervas , which conveyed a carefully cultivated. 26. Genette, Paratexts, xviii. 33. Home to Elliot, 1 June [1757], NLS, MS 11009, Composing the Scottish Enlightenment • 59.
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25 | |
41 | |
Part II Publishing the Scottish Enlightenment in London and Edinburgh | 263 |
Part III Reprinting the Scottish Enlightenment in Dublin and Philadelphia | 441 |
Tables | 611 |
Bibliography | 709 |
Index | 757 |
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