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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... Boswell Papers at Yale University, I am grateful to Gordon Turnbull, the general editor, and the Editorial Committee of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. I thank David Currie for allowing me to examine the ...
... James Boswell observed in 1791, “honor- ary copyright” continued to flourish among them, regulated by “mutual compact” rather than by law (BLJ, 3:370). It was based in the Chapter Coffee House, where participating booksellers kept a ...
... James Boswell and Samuel Johnson visited Pembroke College , Oxford , in March 1776 , Boswell recorded in his journal his dismay at finding in William Adams's library a copy of the “ quarto edition ” of Essays and Trea- tises on Several ...
... James Boswell was one reader who reacted strongly to the paratextual shaping of Hume's authorial persona. In the course of a critique of Hume in his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (1785), Boswell says nothing ...
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Inhalt
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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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