Author: George Chalmers
Publisher:
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Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: George Chalmers
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Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: James Man
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Karen Baston
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004315381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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In Charles Areskine’s Library, Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate’s private book collection to explore key themes in the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature in Scotland. By exploring a surviving manuscript dated 1731that lists a Scottish lawyer’s library, Karen Baston demonstrates that the books Charles Areskine owned, used in practice, and read for pleasure embedded him in the intellectual culture that expanded in early eighteenth-century Scotland. Areskine and his fellow advocates emerged as scholarly and sociable gentlemen who led their nation. Lawyers were integral to and integrated with the Scottish society that allowed the Scottish Enlightenment to take root and flourish within Areskine’s lifetime.

Author: J. C. D. Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521478854
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint, reversing the orthodoxy which has dominated the subject for over thirty years. Jonathan Clark, who has written extensively on English and American religion, ideology and politics in the eighteenth century, presents here a Johnson strikingly different from the apolitical, pragmatic and eccentric figure who emerges from the pages of most students of English literature. Johnson's commitments and conflicts in religion and politics, obscured since Macaulay, are reconstructed; his role in the literary dynamics of his age is revealed against a new context for English cultural politics between the Restoration and the age of Romanticism. This book will therefore be of interest not only to Johnsonians but to historians of ideas and students of English literature.

Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1426

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Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1490

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Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1428

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Author: Rhona Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317062221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of Fergusson's contribution to poetry that also enlarges on our understanding of the Scottish periodical press. Focusing on the development of his career in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, Brown situates Fergusson's poetry alongside contemporary events that expose Fergusson's preoccupations with the frivolities of fashion, theatrical culture, the economic status of Scottish manufacture, and politics. At the same time, Brown offers fascinating insights into the political climate of Enlightenment Scotland and shows the Weekly Magazine in relationship to the larger Scottish and British periodical milieus. She concludes by exploring reactions to Fergusson's death in the British periodical presses, arguing that contrary to critical consensus, the poet's death was ignored neither by his own country nor by the larger literary community.

Author: Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198809697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This book argues that the 'first' Scottish Enlightenment was championed by minority groups traditionally assumed to have been backward-looking and conservative--Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics--and that it resulted in a dramatic transformation of how Scots understood their history.