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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Scottish Enlightenment"”.
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Rhetoric and literary criticism in the early Scottish Enlightenment
In recent years the importance of the Scottish contribution to rhetoric and literary criticism has begun to be fully recognised by historians and literary critics. Men such as Hugh Blair, Adam Smith and George Campbell have now been afforded a just place in the canon of literary critics. However, …
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Commerce, Credit, and Capitalism: Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, 1688-1776
… their economic arguments, it argues that these Scottish intellectuals were grappling with the political ramifications of credit-based monetary innovations that have yet to receive sufficient scholarly attention. Political theorists of commercial society had little trouble in identifying finance …
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
… by the civic humanists. Five thinkers from the Scottish Enlightenment--Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John Millar--confronted this problem. First, they questioned whether some aspects of individualism constitute genuine problems at all. For instance, their analysis …
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Enlightened Agricultural Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
… is marked by the impact of new ideas from the Scottish Enlightenment that influenced agricultural revolution. Practices that had been used for over hundreds of years with little change, went through a dramatic agricultural reimagining during this time period. Scottish Enlightenment “improvers,” …
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Gender, national identity and political agency in eighteenth-century Scotland
… 1706-07 and the mid-to-late eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. These two periods are offered in contrast to each other in order to demonstrate the means by which changing discourses of gender and national identity impacted upon the performance of political agency. The first section of …
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Knowing and Understanding the Past in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Historiographical Thought
… a history is true? Chapter 1 reviews an array of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers’ comments on reading and writing history. Most of the relevant scholarship focuses on David Hume, arguing that he proposed a vivid writing-style is needed to secure belief, and therefore that history threatened to …
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The invention of Scottish literature during the long eighteenth century
"The invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century" examines the limited place in the canon traditionally allowed to creative writing in Scotland during this period and the overarching reading of creative impediment applied to it in the light of Scotland's fraught and not …
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Intellectual formations in the Romantic period: a comparative study of cultural politics and social criticism in the British public sphere, 1802-32
… public sphere. Comparing the work of post-Scottish Enlightenment critics such as Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham and Thomas Carlyle, and their English radical plebeian counterparts, William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Thomas Spence, the thesis examines the bases of two divergent strategies of …
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Beyond rationalist orthodoxy: towards a complex concept of the self in IPE
… influences, his distance from his peers in the Scottish Enlightenment and his ongoing influence across the social sciences. I also analyse the thought of William James, and argue that his similarly influential concept of agency offers a complex view of the self that is complimentary to Smith’s …
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On the origin of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' : science, religion, and the natural world in early Victorian Scotland
… years. Drawing from sources stretching from the Scottish Enlightenment to later nineteenth-century Spiritualism, this study highlights the importance of place in science, and how broader cultural influences combine with social interactions to shape interpretations of the natural world. Of …
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From Walter Scott to Cormac McCarthy : Scottish Romanticism and the novel from the American South
… for the previously underemphasized influence of Scottish Romantic-era writing on the novel from the US South, demonstrating the formative impact of writers such as Walter Scott and James Hogg on the development of Southern writing, but also the ways in which Southern writers critique and revise …
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John Witherspoon and the right of resistance
… of resistance. A product of the Reformation and Enlightenment movements, this doctrine offered justification for questioning the authority of magistrates acting contrary to their sovereignty: it further compelled disobedience to unjust laws and the removal of unjust officials to protect the …
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Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture
… earlier epistemologies of sympathy developed by Scottish Enlightenment writers defined it as a free agent that autonomously flowed through individuals, toward the mid-century, this model left its place to formulations of sympathy as an alignment of affect between clearly separated subjects that …
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Our ancient national airs: Scottish song collecting c.1760-1888
This thesis explores the musical dimension of Scottish song-collecting between the years c.1760 and 1888. The collections under investigation reflect the general cultural influences that bear on their compilers, starting with those associated with what we now call the Scottish Enlightenment, and …
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‘As native in my thought as any here’ A revisionist re-reading of the life and works of James Orr: poet, patriot and Ulster-Scot
… these works are recognisably related to the Scottish vernacular verse tradition of the eighteenth century, however the greater part of his extant work is expressed in standard English. Since the mid-twentieth century Orr’s Scotch poems have excited the interest of a variety of interpreters, …
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The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume
… and in the direction it took within the Scottish Enlightenment in particular. Though these two aspects cover a substantial part of Hume’s work, it has been particularly difficult to place Hume in the context of another major way of thinking about politics, what has been called the Civic …
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This Irish Fiction of Emily Lawless: a narrative analysis
… This is particularly evident in Maelcho in which Scottish Enlightenment stadial theory and the historical novel form pioneered by Sir Walter Scott will be shown to play a significant role in Lawless‟s conceptualisation of Irish social and historical development. Likewise in With Essex in Ireland …
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