Making British Culture

English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-89024-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allan, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

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 Renown’d": 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





PART IV: CONSTRUCTIONS



Chapter 9: Reading and Meaning: History, Travel and Political Economy



Chapter 10: Mis-reading and Misunderstanding: Encountering Natural Religion and Hume





PART V: CONSEQUENCES



Chapter 11: The Making of British Culture: Reading Identities in the Social History of

Ideas



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Allan is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. His other books include Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History (1993), Philosophy and Politics in Later Stuart Scotland: Neo-Stoicism, Culture and Ideology in an Age of Crisis, 1540-1690 (2000), Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment (2002), Adam Ferguson (2006) and A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (2008).