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Making British Culture: English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830 (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)
Making British Culture English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment 17401830 - Routledge Studies in Cultural History Author:David Allan 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 achieveme... more »nts 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.« less