Making British culture :
Allan, David.
Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish enlightenment, 1740-1830 / by David Allan. - New York : Routledge, 2008. - xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in cultural history . - Routledge studies in cultural history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British enlightenment -- "The self-impannelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon -- "For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind -- "An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception -- Readers and their books : why, where and how did reading happen? -- "One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors and the contested text -- "Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading -- Copying and co-opting : owning the text -- Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy -- Mis-reading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume -- The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.
9780415962865 9780415962865 (hardcover) 0415962862 (hardcover)
2007051925
Reading--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Public opinion--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Enlightenment--Scotland.
Historiography--History--Scotland--18th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
Scotland--Intellectual life--18th century.
Scotland--Intellectual life--Public opinion.--18th century
DA485 / .A527 2008
941.07/3
Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish enlightenment, 1740-1830 / by David Allan. - New York : Routledge, 2008. - xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in cultural history . - Routledge studies in cultural history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British enlightenment -- "The self-impannelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon -- "For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind -- "An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception -- Readers and their books : why, where and how did reading happen? -- "One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors and the contested text -- "Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading -- Copying and co-opting : owning the text -- Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy -- Mis-reading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume -- The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.
9780415962865 9780415962865 (hardcover) 0415962862 (hardcover)
2007051925
Reading--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Public opinion--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Enlightenment--Scotland.
Historiography--History--Scotland--18th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
Scotland--Intellectual life--18th century.
Scotland--Intellectual life--Public opinion.--18th century
DA485 / .A527 2008
941.07/3