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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... Enlightenment,49 they have generally been spared the wrath of modern and postmodern critics. The Scottish Enlightenment's version of the “end of Enlightenment” debate has cen- tered on a different problem, defined by two contrary trends ...
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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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