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Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830
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Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830

David Allan

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A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment
"The self-impanelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon
"For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind
"An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception
Readers and their books : why, where, and how did reading happen?
"One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors, and the contested text
"Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading
Copying and co-opting : owning the text
Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy
Misreading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume
The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.

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Making British culture : English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830 by David Allan. ISBN 9780415962865. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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