Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830

Author(s)

• Allan, David

Bibliographic Information

Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830

David Allan

（Routledge studies in cultural history, 8）

Routledge, 2008

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-307) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 - 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 - that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgments PART I: PROBLEMS Chapter 1: A Question of Perspective: Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment PART II: CONTEXTS Chapter 2: "The Self-Impannelled Jury of the English Court of Criticism": Taste and the Making of the Canon Chapter 3: "For Learning and For Arms Renown'd": Scotland in the Public Mind Chapter 4: "An Ample Fund of Amusement and Improvement": Institutional Frameworks for Reading and Reception Chapter 5: Readers and Their Books: Why, Where and How Did Reading Happen? PART III: CONTINGENCIES Chapter 6: "One Longs to Say Something": English Readers, Scottish Authors and the Contested Text Chapter 7: "Many Sketches & Scraps of Sentiments": Commonplacing and the Art of Reading Chapter 8: Copying and Co-opting: Owning the Text PART IV: CONSTRUCTIONS Chapter 9: Reading and Meaning: History, Travel and Political Economy Chapter 10: Mis-reading and Misunderstanding: Encountering Natural Religion and Hume PART V: CONSEQUENCES Chapter 11: The Making of British Culture: Reading Identities in the Social History of Ideas Notes Bibliography Index

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• NCID: BA87873375
• ISBN:
  • 9780415962865
• LCCN: 2007051925
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 325 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA485
  • DC22 : 941.07/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Public opinion
  • LCSH : Reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Enlightenment -- Scotland
  • LCSH : Historiography -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA40268931