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The Enlightenment and the Book - Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (Hardcover)
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The Enlightenment and the Book - Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (Hardcover)
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The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual
activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith,
Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and
Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made
a significant mark during their time in almost every field of
polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe,
and the Americas.
In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for
our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of
publishing during that period. "The Enlightenment and the Book"
seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as "The
Wealth of Nations" and "The Life of Samuel Johnson" were written by
authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their
profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of
bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply
complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in
which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the
dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams
of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that
publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to
advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits.
"The Enlightenment and the Book" explores this tension between
creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing
today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be
must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or
the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
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