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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... book was a complicated , creative , and contingent process in which the book trade , and above all publishers , had a large role to play . This volume explores how the books of the Scottish Enlightenment were put forth into the world ...
... bookshops increased dramatically in London and throughout Britain, and so did the quantity of accessible reading material, including books, peri- odicals, and newspapers. The Enlightenment book trade in Britain did not have to go ...
... book trade did in addi- tion to something else—usually bookselling (which accounts for the fact that publishers were still called “booksellers” much of the time) but in some cases printing or occasionally even bookbinding. Publishers ...
... book culture is viewed as the product of in- teraction between authors and members of the book trade, contingent to a large degree on decisions made by publishers within a given technological and social setting, the more important are ...
... book history concern the range of physical locations and the range of genres or subjects to be stud- ied . In his magisterial account of the production and reception of scientific book ... trade during the late eighteenth century , and Johns ...
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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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