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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... Scotland - History - 18th century . 7. Scottish literature — 18th century — Ap- preciation . 8. English literature - Scottish authors- Appreciation . 9. Authors , Scottish - Intellectual life- 18th century . 10. Enlightenment - Scotland ...
... Scotland; Virginia Murray for permission to quote from letters in the John Murray Archive (formerly owned by John Murray Ltd., London, but now at the National Library of Scotland), copies of which were sometimes supplied to me by Bill ...
... Scotland dealt with publishers in London , and publishers had similarly expansive interactions with printers , booksellers , and stationers . In such circumstances , the key to understanding the relationship between print and knowledge ...
... Scotland were disproportionately influ- ential in many areas and were conspicuous in shaping modern academic disciplines and scholarly fields , from English literature , political economy , and sociology to various branches of science ...
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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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