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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... eighteenth - century Britain , Ireland , and America / Richard B. Sher . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN : 0-226-75252-6 ( cloth : alk . paper ) 1. Scottish literature — 18th century — Publishing . 2 ...
... eighteenth century . It also sug- gests the expansive nature of book publishing , which is at once an act of production and dissemination . According to this view , the publisher— “ one who puts out a book into the world , ” in ...
Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America Richard B. Sher. TERMINOLOGY Although the word “ publisher ” was sometimes used in the eighteenth century to mean the person who arranges and ...
... eighteenth - century British culture . “ Print proved the great engine for the spread of enlight- ened views and values , ” wrote the late Roy Porter in his popular account of the Enlightenment in Britain . As part of an occurrence that ...
... eighteenth century's piv- otal cultural development.”5 More recently, Thomas Munck has argued that “an unprecedented growth in the accessibility of the printed word to those who could read” was crucially important for the expression and ...
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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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