Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Rebeca Araya Acosta
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Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Mediating the Scottish Enlightenment

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This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded religious community in the North of England, and the story worlds of novelists and poets, the study reveals compilation to be a politically resistant activity: it challenged centralizing and homogenizing tendencies within the growing British empire in the latter half of the eighteenth century and actively built counternarratives. Re...