Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834

• Author(s): Barton Swaim,
• Publisher: Associated University Presse
• Pages: 219
• ISBN_10: 0838757162
  ISBN_13: 9780838757161
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland , Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics ,

Description:... Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.