Character, self, and sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Character, self, and sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
(Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- : hbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
Table of Contents
- Reid and Hume on the Possibility of Character
- J.A.Harris Adam Smith's Rhetorical Art of Character
- S.McKenna The Moral Education of Mankind: Character and Religious Moderatism in the Sermons of Hugh Blair
- T.Ahnert The Not-So-Prodigal Son: James Boswell and the Scottish Enlightenment
- A.La-Vopa Character, Sociability and Correspondence: Elizabeth Griffith and The Letters between Henry and Frances
- E.T.Bannet Smellie's Dreams: Character and Consciousness in the Scottish Enlightenment
- P.M.William Aspects of Character and Sociability in Scottish Enlightenment Medicine
- N.Vickers The 'Peculiar Colouring of the Mind': Character and Painted Portraiture in the Scottish Enlightenment
- V.Coltman National Characters and Race: A Scottish Enlightenment Debate
- S.Sebastiani Character and Cosmopolitanism in the Scottish-American Enlightenment
- H.Spahn Historical Characters: Biography, the Science of Man, and Romantic Fiction
- S.Manning Necessity, Freedom, and Character Formation from the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth
- J.Seigel
by "Nielsen BookData"