Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship - including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott - that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.

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David Allan is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. His other books include Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History (1993), Philosophy and Politics in Later Stuart Scotland: Neo-Stoicism, Culture and Ideology in an Age of Crisis, 1540-1690 (2000), Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment (2002), Adam Ferguson (2006) and A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (2008).

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Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship - including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott - that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.

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Acknowledgments

PART I: PROBLEMS

Chapter 1: A Question of Perspective: Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment

PART II: CONTEXTS

Chapter 2: "The Self-Impannelled Jury of the English Court of Criticism": Taste and the Making of the Canon

Chapter 3: "For Learning and For Arms Renown'd": Scotland in the Public Mind

Chapter 4: "An Ample Fund of Amusement and Improvement": Institutional Frameworks for Reading and Reception

Chapter 5: Readers and Their Books: Why, Where and How Did Reading Happen?

PART III: CONTINGENCIES

Chapter 6: "One Longs to Say Something": English Readers, Scottish Authors and