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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... Murray for permission to quote from letters in the John Murray Archive (formerly owned by John Murray Ltd., London, but now at the National Library of Scotland), copies of which were sometimes supplied to me by Bill Zachs and Warren ...
... Murray Lieb , Kate Marsters , Robin Myers , Antonia Reeve , Alison Rosie ... Johnstone's splendid painting of James Sibbald's circulating library . At the University of Chicago Press ... John Robertson , Ian Simpson Ross , and XX · Preface.
... John Murray; Birn, Forging Rousseau; and various studies of the Société typographique de Neuchâtel and its publications, especially by Robert Darnton. 12. For a recent introduction with bibliography, see Bishop, “Book 4• Introduction.
... John Murray, Joseph Johnson, the Dilly broth- ers, and George Robinson in London and Charles Elliot and John Bell in Edinburgh, who also tried to secure worthy Scottish authors and to copublish their books across the London– Edinburgh ...
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Inhalt
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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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