The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

by Ronnie Young (Editor), Ralph McLean (Editor), Kenneth Simpson (Editor), David Allan (Contribution by), Pam Perkins (Contribution by)

Overview

This volume takes a fresh look at the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the wider impact of imaginative literature on Enlightenment culture in general. Covering key authors and work in areas as varied as philosophy, medicine, travel writing, religion, drama, history, publishing, and the periodical press, it provides scholars and students with a timely re-evaluation of the links between imaginative literature and the larger project of Enlightenment in Scotland and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611488005
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	11/18/2016
Series:	Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List Of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: “Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants”: Historiography and Imaginative Literature in the Scottish Enlightenmentby 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 Botanyby Catherine Jones
Chapter 4: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenmentby Ruth Perrry
Chapter 5: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burnsby Colin Kidd
Chapter 6: “Sympathetick Curiosity”: Drama, Moral Thought, and the Science of Human Natureby Ronnie Young
Chapter 7: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literatureby Ralph Mclean
Chapter 8: In Pursuit of “Moral Beauty” and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh’s Literary Culture, 1762–1810by Charles Bradford Bow
Chapter 9: The Mirror Club:Periodicals as Tastemakers in Eighteenth-Century Scotlandby Corey E. Andrews
Chapter 10: “A Scotch Poetical Library”: The Morisons of Perth, Print Culture, and the Construction of an Enlightenment Scottish Literary Canonby Sandro Jung
Chapter 11: Fingal Meets Vercingetorix:'ssianism, Celtomania, and the Transformation of French National Identity in Post-Revolutionary Franceby Deidre Dawson
Chapter 12: The Scottish Enlightenment and American Literary Cultureby Andrew Hook
Chapter 13: Scottish Enlightenment Concepts of Equity in the Nineteenth-Century British Novelby Sarah Winter
Bibliography
Index
About The Contributors

Editorial Reviews

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.

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