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Making British Culture
English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740â1830
- 328 pages
- English
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About this book
Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship â including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott â that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Problems
- 1 A Question of Perspective: Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment
- Part II Contexts
- 2 âThe Self-Impanelled Juryof the English Court of Criticism â: Taste and the Making of the Canon
- 3 âFor Learning and for Arms Renownâdâ: Scotland in the Public Mind
- 4 âAn Ample Fund of Amusement and Improvementâ: Institutional Frameworks for Reading and Reception
- 5 Readers and Their Books: Why, Where, and How Did Reading Happen?
- Part III Contingencies
- 6 âOne Longs to Say Somethingâ: English Readers, Scottish Authors, and the Contested Text
- 7 âMany Sketches &Scraps of Sentimentsâ: Commonplacing and the Art of Reading
- 8 Copying and Co-Opting: Owning the Text
- Part IV Constructions
- 9 Reading and Meaning: History, Travel and Political Economy
- 10 Misreading and Misunderstanding: Encountering Natural Religion and Hume
- Part V Consequences
- 11 The Making of British Culture: Reading Identities in the Social History of Ideas
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author