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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... literature — 18th century — Publishing . 2. English literature - Scottish authors - publishing . 3. Publishers and publishing Great Britain — History -18th century . 4. Publishers and publishing— Ireland - History - 18th century . 5 ...
... literature became a commodity circulating in all shapes and sizes ” and “ Britain found itself awash with print . ” Along with these developments on the supply side came changes in patterns of consump- tion , as “ reading became second ...
... literature . The strong textual orientation of 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 ...
... literature. This list is not a closed one, and it is pitched at a high-enough level of generality to accommodate the different national, regional, and topical manifestations of the Enlightenment, as well as the differences and debates ...
... literature and learning during the eighteenth century , written by authors whose work can be identified with the general values of the Enlightenment dis- cussed earlier . It was a cultural and intellectual phenomenon that is not ...
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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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