Selves and Others Non-fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
The eighteenth century was for Scotland the kind of period that makes sense of the Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times’. It was a time neither comfortable nor stable and yet it moved, admittedly at great cost to some, toward the great intellectual flourishing of the turn of the century...
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| Published in | A History of Scottish Women's Writing p. 71 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
01.07.1997
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| Summary: | The eighteenth century was for Scotland the kind of period that makes sense of the Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times’. It was a time neither comfortable nor stable and yet it moved, admittedly at great cost to some, toward the great intellectual flourishing of the turn of the century and beyond, and in its course, the way was paved for the commercial successes of Victorian Scotland. It is framed at one end by the ‘killing time’ of the 1680s and at the other by the economic upheavals and radical troubles of the early years of the nineteenth |
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| ISBN: | 9780748609161 0748609164 |