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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... sold well enough to merit reprinting , this was not the whole story . Owing largely to the book trade , the Scottish Enlightenment became an international phenomenon during the second half of the eigh- teenth century . Part 3 explores ...
... sold within a few years , but for the duration of Hume's life , and for a long time afterward , Hume's essays and shorter philosophical writings contin- ued to be published in varying formats and sizes under the title Essays and ...
... sold for widely different prices, and the Works contained a personal preface and an over- sized frontispiece portrait engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Pope's friend Charles Jervas , which conveyed a carefully cultivated. 26 ...
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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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