Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834

Why were Scottish writers able to dominate the field of periodical literature throughout the nineteenth century? Barton Swaim's Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834 attempts an answer to that question by examining the period when the Scots' dominance was at its height: the three decades after the founding of the Edinburgh Review in 1802. In this carefully researched and thoughtful study, Swaim discusses the ways in which four writers in the vanguard of Scottish periodical-writing - Francis Jeffrey, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, and Thomas Carlyle - exemplify the historical and cultural dynamics that occasioned Scottish dominance of what Jurgen Habermas would later call the public sphere.

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By Barton Swaim

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• Authors: Barton Swaim
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611483116
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-311-6
• No. of pages: 219
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies