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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... Constable by Andrew Geddes 437 7.1 . 7.2 . Title page in Dublin edition of Kames's Sketches , 1775 Page from the Graisberry ledgers 477 480 7.3 . Title page and frontispiece in William Robertson's History of America , Dublin , 1777 481 ...
... . The second part of the chapter reviews the charges leveled against Creech by Archibald Constable and his circle of early nineteenth-century critics and argues that they unfairly represent both the nature of Introduction • 37.
... Constable himself . If the London and Edinburgh publishers discussed in chapters 4–6 were responsible for producing most of the important new books of the Scottish Enlightenment , as well as for continuing to publish new editions of the ...
... Constable replaced him as the leading Scottish publisher . The age of Sir Walter Scott and the Edinburgh Review had begun , but the Scottish Enlightenment was drawing to a close . Enlightenment book publishing was a complex ...
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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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