Making British culture
Subtitle: English readers and the Scottish enlightenment, 1740-1830
By: by David Allan.
Series: Routledge studies in cultural history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
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 and index.
Table of contents: title: A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British enlightenment; title: "The self-impannelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon; title: "For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind; title: "An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception; title: Readers and their books : why, where and how did reading happen?; title: "One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors and the contested text; title: "Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading; title: Copying and co-opting : owning the text; title: Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy; title: Mis-reading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume; title: The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.