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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... Late Georgian Lancaster , " 267-81 ; “ Some Methods and Problems in the History of Reading , ” 91-124 ; “ Eighteenth - Century Private Subscription Libraries , ” the difficulty of merging these two kinds of data into 30 • Introduction.
... subscription—and some authors met failure and disappointment by means of these same arrangements. On the whole, however, we shall see that the authors of the Scottish Enlight- enment took authorship to a new level of commercial success ...
... subscription folio A Treatise on Ancient Painting. Precisely because these and every other title by this author enjoyed so little com- mercial success, Turnbull dropped from sight until James McCosh resur- rected him in 1875, noting ...
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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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