Cultures of improvement in Scottish romanticism, 1707-1840
"The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotlands post-170...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis
2018
2018. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | The enlightenment world ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009622116306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- part, I Print, Progress and Politeness
- chapter Introduction
- Mapping Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism / Alex Benchimol Gerard Lee McKeever
- chapter 1 Andrew Millar’s ‘Good Vouchers’
- The Malt Tax Crisis and Trade in Controversy / Adam Budd
- chapter 2 Let Scotland Flourish by the Printing of the Word
- Commerce, Civic Enlightenment and National Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783–1800 / Alex Benchimol
- chapter 3 ‘Simplicity, Rightly Understood’
- Improvement in the Collaboration of Robert Burns and George Thomson / Gerard Lee McKeever
- part, II Literature, Land and Commerce
- chapter 4 Thomas Pennant, National Description and the Project of Improvement / Nigel Leask
- chapter 5 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Improvement
- David Dale, Robert Owen and New Lanark Cotton / Michael Morris
- chapter 6 Pastoral Optimism at Improvement’s Frontier
- James Hogg’s Highland Journeys / Alex Deans
- chapter 7 ‘Earth and Stone’
- Improvement, Entailment and Geographical Futures in the Novel of the 1820s / Penny Fielding
- part, III Death, Legacy and Medicine
- chapter 8 Reading John Anderson’s Will
- Improving Human Nature, Science and Scotland in a Commercial Society / Tom Furniss
- chapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) / Megan Coyer
- chapter 10 A Death in the Cottage
- Spiritual and Economic Improvement in Romantic-Era Scottish Death Narratives / Sarah Sharp
- chapter 11 Postscript
- Varieties of Cultural Improvement in the Long Eighteenth Century / Gerard Carruthers.
