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oapen-20.500.12657-464802021-12-24T08:50:09Z Chapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) Coyer, Megan Adam Budd Alex Deans century courant edinburgh eighteenth enlightenment evening Gerard Carruthers Gerard Lee McKeever late Megan Coyer Michael Morris magazine Nigel Leask Penny Fielding Sarah Sharp scotland scots Tom Furniss bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history 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 2021-02-02T15:02:03Z 2021-02-02T15:02:03Z 2018 chapter ONIX_20210202_9781351056410_chpt_32 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46480 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781351056410-ch09.pdf Taylor & Francis Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 Routledge 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb c5f1e949-742b-4e19-8b7e-c494409aac6e c5f1e949-742b-4e19-8b7e-c494409aac6e Routledge 22 open access
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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
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