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A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment -- "The self-impanelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon -- "For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind -- "An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception -- Readers and their books : why, where, and how did reading happen? -- "One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors, and the contested text -- "Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading -- Copying and co-opting : owning the text -- Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy -- Misreading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume -- The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas. |
