Cultures of improvement in Scottish romanticism, 1707-1840 / / edited by Alex Benchimol and Gerard Lee McKeever.

• TeilnehmendeR: Benchimol, Alex,; McKeever, Gerard Lee,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Routledge,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The enlightenment world ; 32
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

"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-170...

Table of Contents

• part, I Print, Progress and Politeness
• chapter Introduction
• Mapping Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism / Alex Benchimol Gerard Lee McKeever
• chapter 1 Andrew Millar’s ‘Good Vouchers’
• The Malt Tax Crisis and Trade in Controversy / Adam Budd
• chapter 2 Let Scotland Flourish by the Printing of the Word
• Commerce, Civic Enlightenment and National Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783–1800 / Alex Benchimol
• chapter 3 ‘Simplicity, Rightly Understood’
• Improvement in the Collaboration of Robert Burns and George Thomson / Gerard Lee McKeever
• part, II Literature, Land and Commerce
• chapter 4 Thomas Pennant, National Description and the Project of Improvement / Nigel Leask
• chapter 5 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Improvement
• David Dale, Robert Owen and New Lanark Cotton / Michael Morris
• chapter 6 Pastoral Optimism at Improvement’s Frontier
• James Hogg’s Highland Journeys / Alex Deans
• chapter 7 ‘Earth and Stone’
• Improvement, Entailment and Geographical Futures in the Novel of the 1820s / Penny Fielding
• part, III Death, Legacy and Medicine
• chapter 8 Reading John Anderson’s Will
• Improving Human Nature, Science and Scotland in a Commercial Society / Tom Furniss
• chapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) / Megan Coyer
• chapter 10 A Death in the Cottage
• Spiritual and Economic Improvement in Romantic-Era Scottish Death Narratives / Sarah Sharp
• chapter 11 Postscript
• Varieties of Cultural Improvement in the Long Eighteenth Century / Gerard Carruthers.