Title Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : books and their readers in provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 / by Mark R.M. Towsey.

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Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Library of the written word ; v. 10
	The handpress world ; v. 5
	Library of the written word ; 10.
	Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 5.
Note	Based on the author's thesis, Ph. D., St. Andrews University, 2007.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-360) and index.
Contents	List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction." Enlightenment Everywhere": Locating the Reader in the Scottish Enlightenment; Part One Encountering Enlightenment; I." One of the Greatest Ornaments to a Gentleman": Private Libraries; II." A Powerful Means of Improving the Neighbourhood": Subscription Libraries; III." Vice and Obscenity Dreadfully Propagated": Circulating Libraries; IV." A Taste for Reading in the Country": Religious and Endowed Libraries; Part Two Experiencing Enlightenment; V." This Map of my Mind": Recovering Historical Reading Experiences.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Books and reading -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
	Books and reading.
	Scotland.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Books and reading -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Enlightenment -- Scotland.
	Enlightenment.
	Reading interests -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
	Reading interests.
	Reading interests -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
	Libraries -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
	Libraries.
	Libraries -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
	Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	Intellectual life.
	Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	Philosophy, Scottish.
	Philosophy, Scottish.
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books -- History.
	History.
	Electronic books -- History.
Other Form:	Print version: Towsey, Mark R.M. Reading the Scottish Enlightenment. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004184329 (DLC) 2010027847 (OCoLC)647218880
ISBN	9789004193512 (electronic book)
	9004193510 (electronic book)
	1283039214
	9781283039215
	9789004184329
	9004184325

Title Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : books and their readers in provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 / by Mark R.M. Towsey.

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