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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... appeared in expensive quarto formats and were later reprinted in smaller and more affordable formats if they proved to be popular. But the ominous gloss that St. Clair places on this practice is unwarranted. Eighteenth-century ...
... appeared as Philosophical Essays [later An Enquiry] concerning Human Understanding (1748) and An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). It was not immediately clear that these works fit together in a meaningful way. In ...
... appeared in four duodecimo volumes in 1760 and in two octavo volumes in 1764 and 1767. A splendid two-volume quarto edition appeared early in 1768, larger and less cramped than the 1758 quarto, with a frontispiece portrait of the author ...
... appeared in 1757, but two years later the third and fourth volumes, on the Tudors, set off a “Clamour . . . almost equal to that against the History of the two first Stuarts.” The last two volumes, on ancient and medieval England, met ...
... appeared as printed works: Francis Hutcheson's System of Moral Philosophy in 1755 and the short-lived Edinburgh Review of 1755–56. It is sometimes said that the Ulsterman Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was the “father” of the Scottish ...
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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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