Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Weekly Magazine, Or, Edinburgh Amusement
Author: The Weekly Magazine, Or Edinburgh Amusement ...
Author: A Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard CarruthersPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119651441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Before Blackwood's
Author: Alex BenchimolPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland’s print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century. In contrast to previous studies, this work treats Blackwood’s Magazine as the culmination of a long tradition rather than a starting point.
Early Responses to Hume’s Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Author: James FieserPublisher: James Fieser
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This work is the second in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume
Author: Dennis C. RasmussenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498586112
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume’s autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it is the only work that Smith published under his name during his lifetime, and it elicited a great deal of commentary and controversy. Because of Hume’s reputation for impiety, Smith’s portrayal of his friend’s cheerfulness and equanimity during his final days provoked outrage among the devout. Smith later commented that this work “brought upon me ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain”—meaning, of course, The Wealth of Nations. This is the first annotated version of this fascinating and important work. Along with the Letter to Strahan, the volume also includes Hume’s My Own Life, the work to which the Letter was a kind of companion piece; two personal letters related to the Letter; and three published responses to the Letter—two viciously critical and one generally favorable. A substantial editor’s introduction discusses the context, composition, publication, and significance of the Letter, along with the strong reaction that it provoked. Taken together, the works included in the volume provide an entertaining and accessible entrée into some of the most controversial debates over religion and morality in the eighteenth century.
Early Responses to Hume's Moral, Literary & Political Writings
Author: James FieserPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781843711179
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In 1741, Hume published his Essays, Moral and Political, making a lasting impact on political, economic and aesthetic theory. This collection gathers together over seventy important early responses to Hume's moral theory and Essays, including articles by Adam Smith, James Beattie, Jeremy Bentham, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Malthus and Thomas Reid.
Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation: Part 2
Author: James FieserPublisher: James Fieser
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This work is the last in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
EARLY RESPONSES TO HUME’S MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Author: James FieserPublisher: James Fieser
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This work is the first in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.