LEADER 05493oam 2200781I 450 001 9910765873903321 005 20190130014832.0 010 $a1-351-05641-7 010 $a1-351-05642-5 010 $a1-351-05640-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781351056427 035 $a(CKB)4340000000265712 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5352185 035 $a(OCoLC)1029231834 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36586 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000265712 100 $a20180706d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCultures of improvement in Scottish romanticism, 1707-1840 /$fedited by Alex Benchimol and Gerard Lee McKeever 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2018 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (262 pages) 225 0 $aThe enlightenment world ;$v32 311 $a1-138-48293-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tpart, I Print, Progress and Politeness -- $tchapter Introduction -- $tMapping Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism /$r Alex Benchimol Gerard Lee McKeever -- $tchapter 1 Andrew Millar?s ?Good Vouchers? -- $tThe Malt Tax Crisis and Trade in Controversy /$r Adam Budd -- $tchapter 2 Let Scotland Flourish by the Printing of the Word -- $tCommerce, Civic Enlightenment and National Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783?1800 /$r Alex Benchimol -- $tchapter 3 ?Simplicity, Rightly Understood? -- $tImprovement in the Collaboration of Robert Burns and George Thomson /$r Gerard Lee McKeever -- $tpart, II Literature, Land and Commerce -- $tchapter 4 Thomas Pennant, National Description and the Project of Improvement /$r Nigel Leask -- $tchapter 5 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Improvement -- $tDavid Dale, Robert Owen and New Lanark Cotton /$r Michael Morris -- $tchapter 6 Pastoral Optimism at Improvement?s Frontier -- $tJames Hogg?s Highland Journeys /$r Alex Deans -- $tchapter 7 ?Earth and Stone? -- $tImprovement, Entailment and Geographical Futures in the Novel of the 1820s /$r Penny Fielding -- $tpart, III Death, Legacy and Medicine -- $tchapter 8 Reading John Anderson?s Will -- $tImproving Human Nature, Science and Scotland in a Commercial Society /$r Tom Furniss -- $tchapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804?17) /$r Megan Coyer -- $tchapter 10 A Death in the Cottage -- $tSpiritual and Economic Improvement in Romantic-Era Scottish Death Narratives /$r Sarah Sharp -- $tchapter 11 Postscript -- $tVarieties of Cultural Improvement in the Long Eighteenth Century /$r Gerard Carruthers. 330 $a"The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotlands post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. The conceptual motif of improvement allows an illumination of the boundaries (and beyond) of conventional notions of Romanticism, tracing its long, evolving imbrication with Enlightenment in Scotland. Exploring the holistic treatment of improvement in Scottish literature, chapter-studies include work on agricultural improvement and processes of commercialization, polite cultural renewal and the cotton trade, an expanding print culture and spirituality in death rituals. Taken as a whole, this amounts to an interdisciplinary re-consideration of the central role of improvement in Scottish cultural history of the long eighteenth century, of interest to a wide range of scholars, reflecting the vitality of the exchange between Enlightenment and Romanticism in Scotland."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aEnglish literature$xScottish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRomanticism$zScotland 606 $aScottish literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aScotland$xIn literature 610 $aAdam Budd 610 $aAlex Deans 610 $acentury 610 $acourant 610 $aedinburgh 610 $aeighteenth 610 $aenlightenment 610 $aevening 610 $aGerard Carruthers 610 $aGerard Lee McKeever 610 $alate 610 $aMegan Coyer 610 $aMichael Morris 610 $amagazine 610 $aNigel Leask 610 $aPenny Fielding 610 $aSarah Sharp 610 $ascotland 610 $ascots 610 $aTom Furniss 615 0$aEnglish literature$xScottish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aScottish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/14509411 700 $aBenchimol$b Alex$4edt$0803331 702 $aBenchimol$b Alex 702 $aMcKeever$b Gerard Lee 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910765873903321 996 $aCultures of improvement in Scottish romanticism, 1707-1840$93653594 997 $aUNINA