TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benchimol,Alex
AU  - Benchimol,Alex
AU  - McKeever,Gerard Lee
AU  - McKeever,Gerard Lee
TI  - Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840
SN  - 9781351056427
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - European history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - General and world history
KW  - History
KW  - Adam Budd
KW  - Alex Deans
KW  - century
KW  - courant
KW  - edinburgh
KW  - eighteenth
KW  - enlightenment
KW  - evening
KW  - Gerard Carruthers
KW  - Gerard Lee McKeever
KW  - late
KW  - magazine
KW  - Megan Coyer
KW  - Michael Morris
KW  - Nigel Leask
KW  - Penny Fielding
KW  - Sarah Sharp
KW  - scotland
KW  - scots
KW  - Tom Furniss
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland's post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781351056427_oachapter9.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46426
ER  -