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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... Society of Edinburgh RSL = Royal Society of London SA = Strahan Archive, British Library, Add. MSS 48800–48918 (also consulted in the published microfilm edition). WCL = William Creech Letterbooks, Blair Oliphant of Ardblair Muni- ments ...
... Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, where in 2000 I had the pleasure of collaborating with Paul Wood and others in ...
... Society of Newcastle; in Scotland, Glasgow University Library, the Mitchell Library, St. Andrews University Library, and the library at the University of Aberdeen; in the United States, the Library of Congress, the Pierpont Morgan ...
... Society for permit- ting me to reproduce William Borthwick Johnstone's splendid painting of James Sibbald's circulating library . At the University of Chicago Press , the legendary Douglas Mitchell immediately grasped what I was trying ...
... societies . * 44 important fields of enlightened intellectual inquiry for the sake of. If there is a common denominator in these ... society requires us to sacrifice too many rich and 44. Robertson , “ Case for Enlightenment " ; Robertson ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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