Making British Culture

English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

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.

Osborn MSS file 17945, Charles Burney to J.W. Callcott, 30 Oct. 1799 Osborn
MSS file 18059, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793– 1835, ALS to Miss
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1797' Osborn Shelves c.35, 'Poetic Trifles,by Charles Burney' Osborn Shelves c.
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