The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 sep 2008 - 842 pagina's 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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... Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (both priced at two guineas for two bound volumes), cost the equivalent of about £89/$162 per volume, Author's Note • xxv.
... Adam Smith , and other eighteenth - century Scottish thinkers , but they insist that their contributions should be con- sidered within the framework of a larger entity called the British Enlight- enment , which they view as the prime ...
... Adam Smith , and Tobias Smollett . If changes in copyright law alone cannot explain the enduring popularity of the ... Adams and Barker , " New Model , " which offers a process - oriented rather than a people - oriented version of the ...
... Adam Smith to write a “ small ad- dition ” that would be published with it , 18 knowing full well that Smith's account would do credit to his reputation . Strahan , however , had his own ideas about how Hume's authorial im- age should ...
... Adam Smith that Hume had essentially commissioned , which took the form of a long letter addressed to Strahan . Smith's laudatory letter — which notoriously con- cluded with the observation that his friend approached “ as nearly to the ...
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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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