Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment [electronic resource] /
Ahnert, T.editor.
An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Conventions; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment; 1 Reid and Hume on the Possibility of Character; 2 Adam Smith's Rhetorical Art of Character; 3 The Moral Education of Mankind: Character and Religious Moderatism in the Sermons of Hugh Blair; 4 The Not-So-Prodigal Son: James Boswell and the Scottish Enlightenment; 5 Character, Sociability, and Correspondence: Elizabeth Griffith and The Letters between Henry and Frances
6 William Smellie's Dreams: Character and Consciousness in the Scottish Enlightenment7 Aspects of Character and Sociability in Scottish Enlightenment Medicine; 8 The "Peculiar Colouring of the Mind": Character and Painted Portraiture in the Scottish Enlightenment; 9 National Characters and Race: A Scottish Enlightenment Debate; 10 Character and Cosmopolitanism in the Scottish-American Enlightenment; 11 Historical Characters: Biography, the Science of Man, and Romantic Fiction; 12 Necessity, Freedom, and Character Formation from the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth; Works Cited; Name Index
Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references (p.267-286) and indexes.
An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
Philosophy.
Social history.
Literature.
Great Britain—History.
Civilization—History.
History, Modern.
History of Philosophy.
Social History.
Literature, general.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
Modern History.