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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... Robinson, the leading expert on the life and poetry of James Beattie, was enormously helpful on Beattie's relations with his publishers. Vincent Kinane alerted me to the existence of the Graisberry ledgers at Trinity College Dublin ...
... 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 axis. Chapter 6 explores the career of Strahan and Cadell's ...
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Inhalt
1 | |
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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