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Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish enlightenment, 1740-1830 / by David Allan.

By: Allan, DavidMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in cultural historyPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415962865; 9780415962865 (hardcover); 0415962862 (hardcover)Subject(s): 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 opinionDDC classification: 941.07/3 LOC classification: DA485 | .A527 2008Online resources: Click here to view Also available as an electronic resource. Taylor & Francis (http://www.taylorandfrancis.com)
Contents:
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.
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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.

Also available as an electronic resource. Taylor & Francis (http://www.taylorandfrancis.com)

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