03778nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-63836-7 DE-He213 20251030112909.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240824s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031638367 978-3-031-63836-7 10.1007/978-3-031-63836-7 doi PN750-759 DSBD bicssc LIT024030 bisacsh DSBD 3ML thema Acosta, Rebeca Araya. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82805 Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain [electronic resource] : Mediating the Scottish Enlightenment / by Rebeca Araya Acosta. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 308 p. 2 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, 2634-6524 Chapter 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. This 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. Rebeca 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. Literature, Modern 18th century. 75060 Literature History and criticism. 66499 European literature. Books History. 66353 Eighteenth-Century Literature. 75061 Literary History. 66789 European Literature. History of the Book. 66357 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031638350 Printed edition: 9783031638374 Printed edition: 9783031638381 Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, 2634-6524 77378 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63836-7 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 62690 62690