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The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

Ralph McLean editor Kenneth Simpson editor Ronnie Young editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bucknell University Press

Published:18th Nov '16

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This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.

The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture brings into conjunction two capacious concepts that are difficult to define: the Enlightenment and literature. . . . The volume has something to offer both readers who are new to the field and those who are specialists. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *

ISBN: 9781611488005

Dimensions: 238mm x 158mm x 25mm

Weight: 680g

314 pages