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PUBLISHER: Bucknell University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781611488005

RRP: £65.00

PAGES: 332

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 1, 2016

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The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

Ronnie Young

Ralph McLean

Kenneth Simpson

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.

Ronnie Young

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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