Character, self, and sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
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Character, self, and sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
（Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and indexes
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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
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