Download or read book The Enlightenment and the Book written by Richard B. Sher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
Download or read book Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries A J written by David C. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sermons written by Hugh Blair and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hugh Blair written by Robert Morell Schmitz and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the life of Hugh Blair, an 18th century minister, author, and rhetorician from Edinburgh.
Download or read book The Burns Almanac written by John Dawson Ross and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the british museum in the year mdcccliv mdccclxxv written by ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere 1802 1834 written by Barton Swaim and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.
Download or read book Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925 Manuscripts 1801 4000 charters and other formal documents 901 2634 written by National Library of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dr John Moore 1729 1802 written by Henry L. Fulton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first biography of Scottish-born physician John Moore. Here, Henry L. Fulton recounts Moore’s childhood, education, and medical training in Glasgow and abroad; discusses his marriage, family, and friendships (particularly with Tobias Smollett); and depicts his professional practice in the north. The narrative uncovers Moore’s transformative experience accompanying a young nobleman on the Grand Tour through Europe and provides a detailed account of the journey's highlights and difficulties. When Moore returns, he moves his family to London to begin a second career in literature and to acquire patronage for his sons’ professions. In this biography Fulton covers not only Moore’s publications but also discusses his circle of friends among nobility, politicians, artists, and others. Also discussed is Moore’s involvement in the French Revolution, his correspondence with Robert Burns, and his strained family relationships. Additionally presented here is new information regarding Moore’s finances drawn from archival records in Glasgow and Edinburgh and his bank ledgers in London.
Download or read book Sermons by Hugh Blair The Fifth Edition written by Hugh Blair and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland Volume 2 written by Stephen W Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns.
Download or read book Catalogue of the collection of autograph letters c of John Dillon which will be sold by auction written by esq. John Dillon and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland Volume 2 Enlightenment and Expansion 1707 1800 written by Stephen W. Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and BurnsOver 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.
Download or read book Literature and Literati Letters 1766 1827 written by Henry Mackenzie and published by Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang. This book was released on 1989 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), the «man of feeling», now published for the first time, make up a unique collection of contemporary information on the cultural, intellectual, social, and political setting of their day. They communicate Scottish Enlightenment thought and openness; they follow the socio-cultural and literary cross-currents during one of the most significant periods of modern Scotland, extend their view to England and, though not forgetting regional boundaries and identities, include the European dimension.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library and Collection of Autograph Letters Papers and Documents written by Massachusetts Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adam Smith Review written by Vivienne Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith's works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings for the modern world.
Download or read book Romantic Correspondence written by Mary A. Favret and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.
