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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... culture , Johnson understood that the move from author / text to 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 ...
... culture throughout Scotland and in promoting excellence even in areas of intellectual activity to which those “ Moderate literati ” did not personally make significant contributions , such as science , medicine , and law . Other factors ...
... culture with that found in “some other kingdoms of Europe,” where “illiberal prejudices” prevailed, the preface continued: “Among us, learning is no longer confined within the schools of the philosophers, or the courts of the great; but ...
... culture . “ Print proved the great engine for the spread of enlight- ened views and values , ” wrote the late Roy Porter in his popular account of the Enlightenment in Britain . As part of an occurrence that Porter variously termed ...
... culture into a canon of authorized texts, the notion of the author as creator, the book as property, and the reader as an elective public.”7 Britain, then, was not unique in developing a ubiquitous book culture that was intimately tied ...
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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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