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Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and Their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 - Couverture rigide

Towsey, Mark

 
9789004184329: Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and Their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820

Synopsis

Drawing on a range of methodologies associated with the history of reading, this book explores the reception of the Scottish Enlightenment, assessing the impact that major texts had on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of contemporary readers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark R. M. Towsey, Ph.D. in History (St Andrews, 2007), is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has previously held fellowships at Harvard, Yale and London, and has published extensively on eighteenth-century libraries and reading habits.

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