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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... tion , as “ reading became second nature to a major swathe of the nation . ” 1 Similarly , John Brewer has written perceptively on the “ print revolution ” that occurred in eighteenth - century Britain , involving both a “ remark- able ...
... tion to something else—usually bookselling (which accounts for the fact that publishers were still called “booksellers” much of the time) but in some cases printing or occasionally even bookbinding. Publishers were sometimes deeply ...
... tion of cultures, just as cultural factors shape the social construction of technologies.16 Because eighteenth-century British printing was famously free of technological innovation and firmly rooted in a secure commercial system ...
... tion that “ piracy and plagiarism occupied readers ' minds just as promi- nently as fixity and enlightenment ” ( 30 ) may be true of scientific books in seventeenth - century London , but it is not necessarily true of books in ...
... ” German translations are reprinted in Klemme, Recep- tion of the Scottish Enlightenment in Germany and in Schmidt's work, cited above. 65. Bassnett, Translation Studies. 70. Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy, Introduction • 23.
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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