Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

Ralph McLean is curator of manuscripts for the Long Eighteenth Century at the National Library of Scotland.The late Ken Simpson (1943–2013) was a distinguished scholar of Scottish Literature and expert on Robert Burns. Ronnie Young teaches Scottish Enlightenment at the University of Glasgow.

• List Of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: “Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants”: Historiography and Imaginative Literature in the Scottish Enlightenment by David Allan Chapter 2: Regulating Reality By Imagination:Fact, Fiction, and Travel in the Scottish Enlightenment by Pam Perkins Chapter 3: Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botany by Catherine Jones Chapter 4: Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenment by Ruth Perrry Chapter 5: Enlightenment and Ecclesiastical Satire before Burns by Colin Kidd Chapter 6: “Sympathetick Curiosity”: Drama, Moral Thought, and the Science of Human Nature by Ronnie Young Chapter 7: Hugh Blair and the Influence of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on Imaginative Literature by Ralph Mclean Chapter 8: In Pursuit of “Moral Beauty” and Intellectual Pleasures: Dugald Stewart and Edinburgh’s Literary Culture, 1762–1810 by Charles Bradford Bow Chapter 9: The Mirror Club:Periodicals as Tastemakers in Eighteenth-Ce

The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture brings into conjunction two capacious concepts that are difficult to define: the Enlightenment and literature. . . . The volume has something to offer both readers who are new to the field and those who are specialists.