Craig Lamont

Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a long overdue reading of Scotland's largest city as it was during the long eighteenth 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 Eighteenth 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474443296
• Artikelnr.: 72413342

Autorenporträt

Craig Lamont is a Research Associate in the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow. His work in eighteenth-century Scottish literature and book history has appeared in key journals.

Inhaltsangabe

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