Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Allan, David
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:	Routledge studies in cultural history ; 8.
Subjects:	Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century. Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century. Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century > Public opinion. Reading > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Public opinion > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Enlightenment > Scotland. Historiography > Scotland > History > 18th century.
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Table of Contents:

A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment
"The self-impanelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon
"For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind
"An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception
Readers and their books : why, where, and how did reading happen?
"One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors, and the contested text
"Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading
Copying and co-opting : owning the text
Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy
Misreading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume
The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.