The Scottish Enlightenment And Literary Culture

Author : Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611488012

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The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture by Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson Pdf

This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.

Author : Cairns Craig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748679331

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Intending Scotland by Cairns Craig Pdf

A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.

Author : Richard B. Sher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226752549

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The Enlightenment and the Book by Richard B. Sher Pdf

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. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748628629

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Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by Ian Brown Pdf

The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.

Author : Mark C. Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Clubs
ISBN : 1684482704

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Association and Enlightenment by Mark C. Wallace Pdf

Author : Christopher J. Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748645336

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Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher J. Berry Pdf

The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised. The book analyses the full range of literature on the subject, from key works like Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', David Hume's 'Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects' and Adam Ferguson's 'Essay on the History of Civil Society' to lesser-known works such as Robert Wallace's 'Dissertation on Numbers of Mankind'.

Author : Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351056403

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Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 by Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever Pdf

The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. The conceptual motif of improvement allows an illumination of the boundaries (and beyond) of conventional notions of Romanticism, tracing its long, evolving imbrication with Enlightenment in Scotland. Exploring the holistic treatment of improvement in Scottish literature, chapter-studies include work on agricultural improvement and processes of commercialization, polite cultural renewal and the cotton trade, an expanding print culture and spirituality in death rituals. Taken as a whole, this amounts to an interdisciplinary re-consideration of the central role of improvement in Scottish cultural history of the long eighteenth century, of interest to a wide range of scholars, reflecting the vitality of the exchange between Enlightenment and Romanticism in Scotland.

Author : Leith Davis,Janet Sorensen
Publisher : Scottish Literature International
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1908980311

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International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century by Leith Davis,Janet Sorensen Pdf

This International Companion shows how Scotland's literary cultures, in English, Gaelic, Latin, and Scots, were transformed in the turbulent age between between 1650 to 1800.

Author : Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192537591

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The First Scottish Enlightenment by Kelsey Jackson Williams Pdf

Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities—Episcopalians and Catholics—in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.

Author : Mark C. Wallace,Jane Rendall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684482689

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Association and Enlightenment by Mark C. Wallace,Jane Rendall Pdf

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

Author : T. Ahnert
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230104142

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Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment by T. Ahnert Pdf

An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.

Author : Glendinning Miles Glendinning
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 9781474468503

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History of Scottish Architecture by Glendinning Miles Glendinning Pdf

At last - here is a single volume authoritative history of Scottish architecture. This compact yet comprehensive account combines factual description of the vast and fertile range of visual forms and key architects in each period with a wide-ranging analysis of their social, ideological and historical context. As Scotland has often been closely involved with new trends in western architecture, this book highlights the interaction of Scottish developments with broader European and international movements. From the beginnings of the Renaissance in the 15th century right up to the 1990s ,this much-needed survey covers the entire post-medieval story in one volume.

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015069341322

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The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918) by Ian Brown Pdf

Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary institutions in the period. New genres, new concerns and whole new areas of interest opened under the creative scrutiny of sceptical minds. This second volume of the History reveals the major contribution made by Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the shape of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world.

Author : Rosalind Carr
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748646432

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Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Rosalind Carr Pdf

Presents major new research on gender in the Scottish EnlightenmentWhat role did gender play in the Scottish Enlightenment? Combining intellectual and cultural history, this book explores how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the 18th century.The book provides an in-depth analysis of men's construction and performance of masculinity in intellectual clubs, taverns and through the violent ritual of the duel. Women are important actors in this story, and the book presents an analysis of women's contribution to Scottish Enlightenment culture, and it asks why there were no Scottish bluestockings.

Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061183748

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Modern Scottish Culture by Michael Gardiner Pdf

This book provides an overview of Scottish culture from the time of union with England and Wales up to and through the moment of devolution to the present.