Making British Culture: English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830

By David Allan

Book Overview

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship - including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott - that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415962862
• ISBN13: 9780415962865
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"