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Ralph McLean is curator of manuscripts for the Long Eighteenth Century at the National Library of Scotland.
The late Ken Simpson (1943–2013) was a distinguished scholar of Scottish Literature and expert on Robert Burns.
Ronnie Young teaches Scottish Enlightenment at the University of Glasgow.
List Of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: “Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants”: Historiography and Imaginative Literature in the Scottish Enlightenmentby David AllanChapter 2: Regulating Reality By Imagination:Fact, Fiction, and Travel in the Scottish Enlightenment by Pam Perkins Chapter 3: Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botanyby Catherine JonesChapter 4: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenmentby Ruth PerrryChapter 5: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burnsby Colin KiddChapter 6: “Sympathetick Curiosity”: Drama, Moral Thought, and the Science of Human Natureby Ronnie YoungChapter 7: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literatureby Ralph McleanChapter 8: In Pursuit of “Moral Beauty” and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh’s Literary Culture, 1762–1810by Charles Bradford BowChapter 9: The Mirror Club:Periodicals as Tastemakers in Eighteenth-Century Scotlandby Corey E. AndrewsChapter 10: “A Scotch Poetical Library”: The Morisons of Perth, Print Culture, and the Construction of an Enlightenment Scottish Literary Canonby Sandro JungChapter 11: Fingal Meets Vercingetorix:Ossianism, Celtomania, and the Transformation of French National Identity in Post-Revolutionary Franceby Deidre DawsonChapter 12: The Scottish Enlightenment and American Literary Cultureby Andrew Hook Chapter 13: Scottish Enlightenment Concepts of Equity in the Nineteenth-Century British Novelby Sarah WinterBibliographyIndexAbout The Contributors
The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture brings into conjunction two capacious concepts that are difficult to define: the Enlightenment and literature. . . . The volume has something to offer both readers who are new to the field and those who are specialists.
— Eighteenth-Century Fiction