Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830 / David Allan.

Author/creator Allan, David
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Reading--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Public opinion--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Enlightenment--Scotland.
Historiography--Scotland. --History. --18th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life. --18th century.
Scotland--Intellectual life. --18th century.
Scotland--Intellectual life. --18th century. --Public opinion.

SeriesRoutledge studies in cultural history ; 8
Routledge studies in cultural history 8. ^A517008
Contents A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment -- "The self-impanelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon -- "For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind -- "An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception -- Readers and their books : why, where, and how did reading happen? -- "One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors, and the contested text -- "Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading -- Copying and co-opting : owning the text -- Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy -- Misreading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume -- The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-307) and index.
LCCN 2007051925
ISBN9780415962865 (hardcover)
ISBN0415962862 (hardcover)
ISBN9780203894798 (e-book)
ISBN0203894790 (e-book)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DA 485 .A527 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold