Character, self, and sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment / edited by Thomas Ahnert and Susan Manning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahnert, Thomas.

Manning, Susan, 1953-2013.

Series:

Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Scotland.

Enlightenment.

Scotland.

Character.

Physical Description:

xv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"This book is about Enlightenment ideas of "character." It argues for their central importance in eighteenth-century thought and culture. The scope of this volume extends well beyond the confines of literary history. It examines discussions of race, nation, the self, virtue, sociability, and historical progress. The specially commissioned essays in this volume are the first, collectively, to address the broader significance of Enlightenment "character," and to do so from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus is on the Scottish Enlightenment, but contributors consider these debates in their international contexts and in relation to parallel developments in Britain, Europe, and America"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Reid and Hume on the Possibility of Character

James A. Harris * Adam Smith's Rhetorical Art of Character

Stephen McKenna * The Moral Education of Mankind: Character and Religious Moderatism in the Sermons of Hugh Blair

Thomas Ahnert * The Not-So-Prodigal Son: James Boswell and the Scottish Enlightenment

Anthony La Vopa * Character, Sociability and Correspondence: Elizabeth Griffith and The Letters between Henry and Frances

Eve Tavor Bannet * Smellie's Dreams: Character and Consciousness in the Scottish Enlightenment

Phyllis Mack William * Aspects of Character and Sociability in Scottish Enlightenment Medicine

Neil Vickers * The 'Peculiar Colouring of the Mind': Character and Painted Portraiture in the Scottish Enlightenment

Viccy Coltman * National Characters and Race: A Scottish Enlightenment Debate

Silvia Sebastiani * Character and Cosmopolitanism in the Scottish-American Enlightenment

Hannah Spahn * Historical Characters: Biography, the Science of Man, and Romantic Fiction

Susan Manning * Necessity, Freedom, and Character Formation from the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth

Jerrold Seigel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780230104143

0230104142

OCLC:

657600103

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