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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... Publication Data Sher , Richard B. , 1948– The Enlightenment and the book : Scottish authors and their publishers in eighteenth - century Britain , Ireland , and America / Richard B. Sher . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references ...
... publications represent milestones in the respective book histories of England , Scotland , Ireland , and North America ... publication of Furet , Bollème , and Roche's pioneer- ing work , Livre et société dans la France du 18e siècle ...
... publication was only one of several publishing arrangements available to authors and publishers. For all these reasons, it seems advisable to proceed by asking not only how the law regulated literary property but also how the publication ...
... publication and reception of the work in which it appeared . Yet the methodological principle that I have invoked it to illustrate holds true across the board : the conditions of publication and distribution can help us to recover the ...
... publication process . His surviving correspondence is filled with detailed observations , requests , and demands about the format , timing , paper , quantity , printing , publish- ing , and marketing , as well as textual content , of ...
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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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