Making British Culture: English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 17401830 [Paperback]

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.

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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 Renownd : 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

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