Edinburgh
Subtitle: the Golden Age
By: Mary Cosh.
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1105
Subjects: Edinburgh (Scotland) -- History.; Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.; Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Edinburgh: The Golden Age is a major contribution to the literature on the Scottish Enlightenment and an extraordinarily lucid insight into Edinburgh during the most exciting and stimulating period of its history. Based on an astonishingly wide range of sources - local newspapers and journals, published accounts of travels to Scotland, diaries, letters, reminiscences etc., as well as more modern texts - it covers the social and cultural history of the city from around 1760 until 1832, the year in which Sir Walter Scott died."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 1029-1043) and index.