The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800

Herausgeber: Brown, Stephen W; McDougall, Warren

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Produktbeschreibung

[Front flap] Volume 2 Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800 Edited by Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall A study of the book during the age of Fergusson and Burns The eighteenth century saw Scotland expand its publishing, through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and the development of overseas markets. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Philadelphia sold classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism made publishing one of the country's elite new industries. continued on back flap The Edinburgh History of the book in scotland [back flap] Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800 Edited by Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall Edinburgh continued from front flap Over forty leading scholars come together in this volume to examine the development of the book in Scotland from 1707 to 1800. Printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, the novel, sermons, street literature, periodicals, Gaelic books, Scottish poetry, children's books and cookery books are among the many aspects of print culture that they scrutinise. The book is enhanced by 25 colour images of Scottish bindings, 16 additional colour plates and 35 black and white illustrations. Stephen W. Brown is a 3M Fellow and Professor of English at Trent University in Canada. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Warren McDougall is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. The other volumes in the series are: Volume 1 From the Earliest Times to 1707 Edited by Alastair Mann and Sally Mapstone Volume 3 Ambition and Industry 1800-1880 Edited by Bill Bell Volume 4 Professionalism and Diversity 1880-2000 Edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1538g
• ISBN-13: 9780748619122
• ISBN-10: 0748619127
• Artikelnr.: 33767805

Autorenporträt

Stephen W. Brown is Professor of English at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Warren McDougall, born in Edinburgh, was a newspaper reporter in Canada and for many years an English teacher in Edinburgh. He attended the University of Western Ontario and the University of Edinburgh. His Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis in the mid 1970s - on Hamilton, Balfour and Neill - was the first modern study of the book trade in the Scottish Enlightenment, and he has subsequently written ground-breaking papers on the book in 18th century Scotland, including copyright litigation and the rise of the Scottish book trade, Scottish books for America, piracy and book smuggling, and Edinburgh medical publishing and the international book trade. He contributed articles on Scottish book trade figures to the New DNB, and is writing on the Scottish trade for the History of the Book in Britain vol. 5 and the History of the Book in America vol. 2, while his case study of a Scottish printer abroad will appear in A History of the Book in Canada vol. 1. He is writing a book on the Edinburgh bookseller Charles Elliot and is indexing for publication the entries in Elliot's letterbooks and ledgers. Recently he has had fellowships at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, and Trent University, Canada, and is currently an honorary fellow at the Centre for the History of the Book, Edinburgh University. He is secretary of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.