The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture.

By:

Young, Ronnie

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Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781611488012

Subject(s):

Literature and society - Scotland - History - 18th century

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary CultureDDC classification:

820.99411

LOC classification:

DA826.S368 2016

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: "Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons, and Monstrous Giants" -- Chapter Two: Regulating Reality by Imagination -- Chapter Three: Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botany -- Chapter Four: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenment -- Chapter Five: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burns -- Chapter Six: "Sympathetick Curiosity" -- Chapter Seven: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literature -- Chapter Eight: In Pursuit of "Moral Beauty" and Intellectual Pleasures -- Chapter Nine: The Mirror Club -- Chapter Ten: "A Scotch Poetical Library" -- Chapter Eleven: Fingal Meets Vercingetorix -- Chapter Twelve: The Scottish Enlightenment and American Literary Culture -- Chapter Thirteen: Scottish Enlightenment Concepts of Equity in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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