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OverviewThis book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded religious community in the North of England, and the story worlds of novelists and poets, the study reveals compilation to be a politically resistant activity: it challenged centralizing and homogenizing tendencies within the growing British empire in the latter half of the eighteenth century and actively built counternarratives. Rebeca Araya Acosta offers a fresh view of eighteenth-century literary transaction and shows how practices of compilation in the period were more diversified and had a far greater impact on readers than their modern descendants. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rebeca Araya AcostaPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 2024 ed. ISBN: 9783031638350ISBN 10: 3031638352 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 24 August 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Putting the Enlightened Self Together: William Smellie’s Literary and Characteristical Lives (1800).- Chapter 3: Revisiting Enlightenment Historiography and Aesthetics: Smollett, Sterne, and Mackenzie.- Chapter 4: Revisiting Enlightenment Political Theory: Barbauld and the “Things Indifferent”.- Chapter 5: Expanding Comparative Views: Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (1789–1791) and The Temple of Nature (1803).- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Compilation and the Literary History of the Scottish Enlightenment.ReviewsAuthor InformationRebeca Araya Acosta is Lecturer in the English department of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her main research area is the long eighteenth century with an emphasis on print culture and the interaction between science and literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |