The cultural memory of Georgian Glasgow / Craig Lamont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamont, Craig, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Intellectual life.

Glasgow (Scotland).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This title provides a reading of Scotland's largest city as it was during the long 18th century. These formative years of Enlightenment, caught between the tumultuous ages of the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, cast Glasgow in a new and vibrant light. Far from being a dusty metropolis lying in wait for the famous age of shipbuilding, Glasgow was already an imperial hub: as implicated in mass migration and slavery as it was in civic growth and social progression. Craig Lamont incorporates case studies such as the Scottish Enlightenment, the Transatlantic Slave Trade and 18th Century Print Culture to investigate how the city was shaped by the emergence of new trades and new ventures in philosophy, fine art, science, and religion. The book merges historical, literary and memory studies to provide an original blueprint for new research into other cities or civic spaces.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Timeline of Georgian Glasgow

Plan of the City of Glasgow (1778)

Introduction

PART I GEORGIAN GLASGOW

1. Georgian Glasgow: A History

PART II REMEMBERING THE GLASGOW ENLIGHTENMENT

2. Glasgow as a Centre for the Arts, Science and Medicine

3. ‘Unimpaired remembrance reigns’

PART III EMPIRE AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF MEMORY

4. ‘That barbarous traffic

5. ‘Then went forth our Scots’

PART IV COMMEMORATING GLASGOW AS THE ‘SECOND CITY’

6. Literary Tourists and Soldier Heroes

7. The Great Exhibitions: 1888–1938

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-4330-3

1-4744-9647-4

1-4744-4329-X

OCLC:

1312725852