Character, self, and sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
By: edited by Thomas Ahnert and Susan Manning
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780230104143
Subjects: Enlightenment; Character
Description: "This book is about Enlightenment ideas of "character." It argues for their central importance in eighteenth-century thought and culture. The scope of this volume extends well beyond the confines of literary history. It examines discussions of race, nation, the self, virtue, sociability, and historical progress. The specially commissioned essays in this volume are the first, collectively, to address the broader significance of Enlightenment "character," and to do so from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus is on the Scottish Enlightenment, but contributors consider these debates in their international contexts and in relation to parallel developments in Britain, Europe, and America"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Reid and Hume on the Possibility of Character; title: James A. Harris * Adam Smith's Rhetorical Art of Character; title: Stephen McKenna * The Moral Education of Mankind: Character and Religious Moderatism in the Sermons of Hugh Blair; title: Thomas Ahnert * The Not-So-Prodigal Son: James Boswell and the Scottish Enlightenment; title: Anthony La Vopa * Character, Sociability and Correspondence: Elizabeth Griffith and The Letters between Henry and Frances; title: Eve Tavor Bannet * Smellie's Dreams: Character and Consciousness in the Scottish Enlightenment; title: Phyllis Mack William * Aspects of Character and Sociability in Scottish Enlightenment Medicine; title: Neil Vickers * The 'Peculiar Colouring of the Mind': Character and Painted Portraiture in the Scottish Enlightenment; title: Viccy Coltman * National Characters and Race: A Scottish Enlightenment Debate; title: Silvia Sebastiani * Character and Cosmopolitanism in the Scottish-American Enlightenment; title: Hannah Spahn * Historical Characters: Biography, the Science of Man, and Romantic Fiction; title: Susan Manning * Necessity, Freedom, and Character Formation from the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth; title: Jerrold Seigel.