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Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediating the Scottish Enlightenment: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

Autor Rebeca Araya Acosta
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2024
This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded religious community in the North of England, and the story worlds of novelists and poets, the study reveals compilation to be a politically resistant activity: it challenged centralizing and homogenizing tendencies within the growing British empire in the latter half of the eighteenth century and actively built counternarratives. Rebeca Araya Acosta offers a fresh view of eighteenth-century literary transaction and shows how practices of compilation in the period were more diversified and had a far greater impact on readers than their modern descendants.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031638350
ISBN-10: 3031638352
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: Approx. 305 p. 2 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Putting the Enlightened Self Together: William Smellie’s Literary and Characteristical Lives (1800).- Chapter 3: Revisiting Enlightenment Historiography and Aesthetics: Smollett, Sterne, and Mackenzie.- Chapter 4: Revisiting Enlightenment Political Theory: Barbauld and the “Things Indifferent”.- Chapter 5: Expanding Comparative Views: Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (1789–1791) and The Temple of Nature (1803).- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Compilation and the Literary History of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Notă biografică

Rebeca Araya Acosta is Lecturer in the English department of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her main research area is the long eighteenth century with an emphasis on print culture and the interaction between science and literature.
 
 
 

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This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded religious community in the North of England, and the story worlds of novelists and poets, the study reveals compilation to be a politically resistant activity: it challenged centralizing and homogenizing tendencies within the growing British empire in the latter half of the eighteenth century and actively built counternarratives. Rebeca Araya Acosta offers a fresh view of eighteenth-century literary transaction and shows how practices of compilation in the period were more diversified and had a far greater impact on readers than their modern descendants.
 
Rebeca Araya Acosta is Lecturer in the English department of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her main research area is the long eighteenth century with an emphasis on print culture and the interaction between science and literature.

Caracteristici

Shows the importance of compilations to multiple domains of inquiry in eighteenth-century Britain Revises and corrects a historical picture of compilation as a passive, neutral, marginal practice Offers a non-canonical reading of the period, presenting it from the perspective of the compiler