Overview

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship -- including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott -- that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.

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Author:   David Allan (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v. 8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780415962865

ISBN 10:   0415962862
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   09 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Abbreviations Acknowledgments PART I: PROBLEMS Chapter 1: A Question of Perspective: Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment PART II: CONTEXTS Chapter 2: ""The Self-Impannelled Jury of the English Court of Criticism"": Taste and the Making of the Canon Chapter 3: ""For Learning and For Arms Renown’d"": Scotland in the Public Mind Chapter 4: ""An Ample Fund of Amusement and Improvement"": Institutional Frameworks for Reading and Reception Chapter 5: Readers and Their Books: Why, Where and How Did Reading Happen? PART III: CONTINGENCIES Chapter 6: ""One Longs to Say Something"": English Readers, Scottish Authors and the Contested Text Chapter 7: ""Many Sketches & Scraps of Sentiments"": Commonplacing and the Art of Reading Chapter 8: Copying and Co-opting: Owning the Text PART IV: CONSTRUCTIONS Chapter 9: Reading and Meaning: History, Travel and Political Economy Chapter 10: Mis-reading and Misunderstanding: Encountering Natural Religion and Hume PART V: CONSEQUENCES Chapter 11: The Making of British Culture: Reading Identities in the Social History of Ideas Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

'He [Allan] must be applauded for further redirecting our focus on the consumers and institutions of Enlightenment culture and, above all else, for the magisterial scale of his archival excavations, which incorporates no fewer than fifty local repositories in addition to over a dozen major research libraries.' --Journal of Modern History 'As a repository of unique archival evidence regarding English readers' consumption of Scottish Enlightenment texts, Allan's book is uniquely valuable'. -- Project Muse

'He [Allan] must be applauded for further redirecting our focus on the consumers and institutions of Enlightenment culture and, above all else, for the magisterial scale of his archival excavations, which incorporates no fewer than fifty local repositories in addition to over a dozen major research libraries.' -Journal of Modern History 'As a repository of unique archival evidence regarding English readers' consumption of Scottish Enlightenment texts, Allan's book is uniquely valuable'. - Project Muse

Author Information

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).

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