The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

• Author(s): Ronnie Young, Ralph McLean, Kenneth Simpson,
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Pages: 314
• ISBN_10: 161148801X
  ISBN_13: 9781611488012
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century , History / Europe / General ,

Description:... This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.