Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-18
Mått:158 x 238 x 25 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Associated University Presses
ISBN:9781611488005

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Ralph McLean is curator of manuscripts for the Long Eighteenth Century at the National Library of Scotland.The late Ken Simpson (1943–2013) was a distinguished scholar of Scottish Literature and expert on Robert Burns. Ronnie Young teaches Scottish Enlightenment at the University of Glasgow.

Recensioner i media

The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture brings into conjunction two capacious concepts that are difficult to define: the Enlightenment and literature. . . . The volume has something to offer both readers who are new to the field and those who are specialists.

Innehållsförteckning

List Of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: “Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants”: Historiography and Imaginative Literature in the Scottish Enlightenment by David Allan Chapter 2: Regulating Reality By Imagination:Fact, Fiction, and Travel in the Scottish Enlightenment by Pam Perkins Chapter 3: Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botany by Catherine Jones Chapter 4: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenment by Ruth Perrry Chapter 5: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burns by Colin Kidd Chapter 6: “Sympathetick Curiosity”: Drama, Moral Thought, and the Science of Human Nature by Ronnie Young Chapter 7: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literature by Ralph Mclean Chapter 8: In Pursuit of “Moral Beauty” and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh’s Literary Culture, 1762–1810 by Charles Bradford Bow Chapter 9: The Mirror Club:Periodicals as Tastemakers in Eighteenth-Ce