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Reading the Scottish Enlightenment

Books and Their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820
BuchGebunden
380 Seiten
Englisch
Brillerschienen am24.09.2010
Drawing on a range of methodologies associated with the history of reading, this book explores the reception of the Scottish Enlightenment, assessing the impact that major texts had on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of contemporary readers.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextDrawing on a range of methodologies associated with the history of reading, this book explores the reception of the Scottish Enlightenment, assessing the impact that major texts had on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of contemporary readers.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-90-04-18432-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2010
Erscheinungsdatum24.09.2010
Seiten380 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 168 mm, Höhe 244 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht771 g
Artikel-Nr.12322384
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of TablesAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Enlightenment Everywhere : Locating the Reader in the Scottish Enlightenment 1PART I: ENCOUNTERING ENLIGHTENMENTChapter One One of the Greatest Ornaments to a Gentleman : Private LibrariesChapter Two A Powerful Means of Improving the Neighbourhood : Subscription LibrariesChapter Three Vice and Obscenity Dreadfully Propagated : Circulating LibrariesChapter Four A Taste for Reading in the Country : Religious and Endowed LibrariesPART II: EXPERIENCING ENLIGHTENMENTChapter Five This Map of my Mind : Recovering Historical Reading ExperiencesChapter Six A Man of Moderate Passions : Fashioning an Enlightened SelfChapter Seven That Independency which a Whole Nation had Renounced : Negotiating Scottish IdentityChapter Eight The Patron of Infidelity : Reading Hume and the Common Sense PhilosophersConclusion Improved and Enlightened by Reading : A Provincial Enlightenment?BibliographyIndexmehr

Autor

Mark R. M. Towsey, Ph.D. in History (St Andrews, 2007), is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has previously held fellowships at Harvard, Yale and London, and has published extensively on eighteenth-century libraries and reading habits.