This volume takes a fresh look at the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the wider impact of imaginative literature on Enlightenment culture in general. Covering key authors and work in areas as varied as philosophy, medicine, travel writing, religion, drama, history, publishing, and the periodical press, it provides scholars and students with a timely re-evaluation of the links between imaginative literature and the larger project of Enlightenment in Scotland and beyond.
This volume takes a fresh look at the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the wider impact of imaginative literature on Enlightenment culture in general. Covering key authors and work in areas as varied as philosophy, medicine, travel writing, religion, drama, history, publishing, and the periodical press, it provides scholars and students with a timely re-evaluation of the links between imaginative literature and the larger project of Enlightenment in Scotland and beyond.
Ralph McLean is curator of manuscripts for the Long Eighteenth Century at the National Library of Scotland. The late Ken Simpson (1943-2013) was a distinguished scholar of Scottish Literature and expert on Robert Burns. Ronnie Young teaches Scottish Enlightenment at the University of Glasgow.
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List Of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: "Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants": Historiography and Imaginative Literature in the Scottish Enlightenment by David Allan Chapter 2: Regulating Reality By Imagination:Fact, Fiction, and Travel in the Scottish Enlightenment by Pam Perkins Chapter 3: Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botany by Catherine Jones Chapter 4: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenment by Ruth Perrry Chapter 5: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burns by Colin Kidd Chapter 6: "Sympathetick Curiosity": Drama, Moral Thought, and the Science of Human Nature by Ronnie Young Chapter 7: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literature by Ralph Mclean Chapter 8: In Pursuit of "Moral Beauty" and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh's Literary Culture, 1762-1810 by Charles Bradford Bow Chapter 9: The Mirror Club:Periodicals as Tastemakers in Eighteenth-Ce
List Of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: "Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants": Historiography and Imaginative Literature in the Scottish Enlightenment by David Allan Chapter 2: Regulating Reality By Imagination:Fact, Fiction, and Travel in the Scottish Enlightenment by Pam Perkins Chapter 3: Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botany by Catherine Jones Chapter 4: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenment by Ruth Perrry Chapter 5: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burns by Colin Kidd Chapter 6: "Sympathetick Curiosity": Drama, Moral Thought, and the Science of Human Nature by Ronnie Young Chapter 7: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literature by Ralph Mclean Chapter 8: In Pursuit of "Moral Beauty" and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh's Literary Culture, 1762-1810 by Charles Bradford Bow Chapter 9: The Mirror Club:Periodicals as Tastemakers in Eighteenth-Ce
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