Making British culture
Subtitle: English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830
By: David Allan.
Series: Routledge studies in cultural history -- 8
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780415962865; 9780203894798
Subjects: Reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Enlightenment -- Scotland.; Historiography -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Public opinion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-307) and index.
Table of contents: value: A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment; value: "The self-impanelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon; value: "For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind; value: "An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception; value: Readers and their books : why, where, and how did reading happen?; value: "One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors, and the contested text; value: "Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading; value: Copying and co-opting : owning the text; value: Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy; value: Misreading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume; value: The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.