Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Part I Problems; 1 A Question of Perspective: Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment; Part II Contexts; 2 "The Self-Impanelled Jury of the English Court of Criticism": Taste and the Making of the Canon; 3 "For Learning and for Arms Renown'd": Scotland in the Public Mind; 4 "An Ample Fund of Amusement and Improvement": Institutional Frameworks for Reading and Reception; 5 Readers and Their Books: Why, Where, and How Did Reading Happen?; Part III Contingencies
Summary
Making British Culture explores the emergence of a recognizably British culture by examining the experiences of English readers between 1707 and 1830 as they grappled with the great effusion of Scottish authorship. Examples include David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Robert Burns and Walter Scott