Review
The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, & America
Libraries & the Cultural Record, Vol.43(2), pp.238-240
04/01/2008
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/118406
Abstract
[...] claims advanced to impugn or indict the influence of Enlightenment ideas on modern and postmodern thought and tragic historical events are usually rooted in readings of the era focused on one or two figures and their work and on the attendant assumption that their views represent the totality of intellectual effort promoted, debated, and accepted during the age. Sher's astonishingly careful and cohesive treatment of a widely influential and often misunderstood or maligned period in Western history provides a nexus for multiple areas of critical investigation, including the Scottish Enlightenment, publishing history, book culture, authorship, and readership.
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Details
- Title
- The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, & America
- Creators
- Greg Matthews
- Publication Details
- Libraries & the Cultural Record, Vol.43(2), pp.238-240
- Publisher
- University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press); Austin
- Identifiers
- 99900580022501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Review