Beyond the Enlightenment

Aileen Fyfe is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. She is a social and cultural historian of science and technology, and has written extensively about the communication of science, and the history of academic publishing more broadly. Her books include A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 (UCL Press, 2022), Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing 1820-1860 (Chicago University Press, 2012) and Science and Salvation: Evangelicals and Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain (Chicago University Press, 2004). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022. Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. His books include Subverting Scotland’s Past (1993), British Identities before Nationalism (1999) and The Forging of Races (2006). He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review between 1999 and 2004.

At last, a bold new map of a period that has hitherto been simply ignored as terra incognita or dismissed as the sorry afterglow of the Scottish Enlightenment. The authors that Fyfe and Kidd have drawn together bring major landmarks on the intellectual horizon of Scotland’s long nineteenth century into clear focus for the first time, but also leave abundant signposts for others to continue the task of exploration.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Scotland after EnlightenmentAileen Fyfe and Colin Kidd2. The Enlightenment Legacy and the Democratic IntellectRobert Anderson 3. Dugald Stewart, William Godwin and the Formation of Political EconomyLina Weber 4. The French Revolution and the Transformation of Moderatism:The Silence of the ScribesJohn S. Warren5. James Mackintosh: The Science of Politics after the French RevolutionRichard Whatmore6. Scotland’s Freethinking Societies: Debating Natural Theology, 1820–c.1843Felicity Loughlin7. Christian Isobel Johnstone: Radical Journalism and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Scottish EnlightenmentJane Rendall 8. Robert Mudie: Pioneer Naturalist and Crusading ReformerEva-Charlotta Mebius 9. Theories of Universal Degeneration in Post-Enlightenment ScotlandBill Jenkins10. Robert Knox: The Embittered Scottish Anatomist and his Controversial Race Science in Mid-Nineteenth-Century BritainEfram Sera-Shriar11. Thomas Carlyle and the Scottish Enlightenment Concept of SympathyJoanna Malecka 12. Covenanting and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Reformed Presbyterian Political TheoryValerie Wallace 13. Andrew Lang and the Cosmopolitan ConditionCatriona M.M. Macdonald14. Criticism and Freethought, 1880-1914Colin Kidd 15. Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Enlightenment in Scottish CriticismGerard Carruthers Index