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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... Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle; in Scotland, Glasgow University Library, the Mitchell Library, St. Andrews University Library, and the library at the University of Aberdeen; in the United States, the Library of Congress ...
... literary critics encourages a dualism of text and book that associates literature with mind and bibliography with matter . In the introduction to the Janu- ary 2006 PMLA special issue “ The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature ...
... literary property has attracted so much scholarly attention. Because the issue was contested in legal cases and paper wars, there exists a huge body of legal papers and published pam- phlets that scholars can consult.70 Intellectual ...
... literary prop- erty functioned as a subset of the ideology of corporate order. Moreover, sale of copyright prior to publication was only one of several publishing arrangements available to authors and publishers. For all these reasons ...
... literary and learned authors—and potential authors—as they attempted to guide their book manuscripts through the “hazards, pitfalls and dead ends” of the publishing process, especially in London. The same metaphor may also be applied ...
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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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