| Making British Culture: English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830 Contributor(s): Allan, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415890241 ISBN-13: 9780415890243 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - Scotland - History | Social History - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 941.073 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 340 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship - including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott - that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment. |