Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Benchimol, Alex; McKeever, Gerard Lee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland's post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. The conceptual motif of improvement allows an illumination of the boundaries (and beyond) of conventional notions of Romanticism, tracing its long, evolving imbrication with Enlightenment in Scotland. Exploring the holistic treatment of improvement in Scottish literature, chapter-studies include work on agricultural improvement and processes of commercialization, polite cultural renewal and the cotton trade, an expanding print culture and spirituality in death rituals. Taken as a whole, this amounts to an interdisciplinary re-consideration of the central role of improvement in Scottish cultural history of the long eighteenth century, of interest to a wide range of scholars, reflecting the vitality of the exchange between Enlightenment and Romanticism in Scotland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351056403
• Artikelnr.: 54007672

Autorenporträt

Alex Benchimol is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Gerard Lee McKeever is a founding Co-Convener of the Scottish Romanticism Research Group at the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Nicholas Phillipson Introduction: Mapping Cultures of Improvement
in Scottish Romanticism Alex Benchimol and Gerard Lee McKeever Part I:
Print, Progress and Politeness 1. Andrew Millar's 'Good Vouchers': The Malt
Tax Crisis and Trade in Controversy Adam Budd 2. Let Scotland Flourish by
the Printing of the Word: Commerce, Civic Enlightenment and National
Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783-1800 Alex Benchimol 3.
'Simplicity, Rightly Understood': Improvement in the Collaboration of
Robert Burns and George Thomson Gerard Lee McKeever Part II: Literature,
Land and Commerce 4. Thomas Pennant, National Description and the Project
of Improvement Nigel Leask 5. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of
Improvement: David Dale, Robert Owen and New Lanark Cotton Michael Morris
6. Pastoral Optimism at Improvement's Frontier: James Hogg's Highland
Journeys Alex Deans 7. 'Earth and Stone': Improvement, Entailment and
Geographical Futures in the Novel of the 1820s Penny Fielding Part III:
Death, Legacy and Medicine 8. Reading John Anderson's Will: Improving Human
Nature, Science and Scotland in a Commercial Society Tom Furniss 9.
Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary
Miscellany (1804-17) Megan Coyer 10. A Death in the Cottage: Spiritual and
Economic Improvement in Romantic-Era Scottish Death Narratives Sarah Sharp
Postscript: Varieties of Cultural Improvement in the Long Eighteenth
Century Gerard Carruthers