Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain Mediating the Scottish Enlightenment
This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded religious community in the North o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Putting the Enlightened Self Together: William Smellie’s Literary and Characteristical Lives (1800)
- Chapter 3: Revisiting Enlightenment Historiography and Aesthetics: Smollett, Sterne, and Mackenzie
- Chapter 4: Revisiting Enlightenment Political Theory: Barbauld and the “Things Indifferent”
- Chapter 5: Expanding Comparative Views: Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (1789–1791) and The Temple of Nature (1803)
- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Compilation and the Literary History of the Scottish Enlightenment