Making British Culture : English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830

ISBN-13: 9780415962865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 340 str.

Qc David Allan

Opis

Explores the emergence of a British culture by examining the experiences of English readers between 1707 and 1830 as they grappled with the effusion of Scottish authorship. This book features examples including David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Ro

O autorze

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).