The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture
The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture
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This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: “Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants”: Historiography and Imaginative Literature in the Scottish Enlightenment by David Allan
Chapter 2: Regulating Reality By Imagination:Fact, Fiction, and Travel in the Scottish Enlightenment by Pam Perkins
Chapter 3: Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botany by Catherine Jones
Chapter 4: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenment by Ruth Perrry
Chapter 5: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burns by Colin Kidd
Chapter 6: “Sympathetick Curiosity”: Drama, Moral Thought, and the Science of Human Nature by Ronnie Young
Chapter 7: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literature by Ralph Mclean
Chapter 8: In Pursuit of “Moral Beauty” and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh's Literary Culture, 1762–1810 by Charles Bradford Bow
Chapter 9: The Mirror Club:Periodicals as Tastemakers in Eighteenth-Ce
Product details
| Published | Nov 18 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 314 |
| ISBN | 9781611488005 |
| Imprint | Bucknell University Press |
| Illustrations | 17 b/w illustrations; |
| Dimensions | 238 x 158 mm |
| Series | Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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