Northern Lights
Rosalind Mitchison, 19 April 1984
Literature and Gentility in Scotland
by David Daiches.
Edinburgh, 114 pp., £6.50, June 1982,9780852244388 Show More
by David Daiches.
Edinburgh, 114 pp., £6.50, June 1982,
New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland
edited by John Dwyer, Roger Mason and Alexander Murdoch.
John Donald, 340 pp., £15, August 1982,0 85976 066 9 Show More
edited by John Dwyer, Roger Mason and Alexander Murdoch.
John Donald, 340 pp., £15, August 1982,
Adam Smith
by R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner.
Croom Helm, 231 pp., £12.95, June 1982,9780709907299 Show More
by R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner.
Croom Helm, 231 pp., £12.95, June 1982,
Boswell: The Applause of the Jury 1782-1785
edited by Irma Lustig and Frederick Pottle.
Heinemann, 419 pp., £15, July 1982,0 434 43945 2 Show More
edited by Irma Lustig and Frederick Pottle.
Heinemann, 419 pp., £15, July 1982,
“... The leading figures in all these books are well-known, and are located in a period of conspicuous intellectual activity in the Scotland of the mid and late 18th century. This was the time when the modern social sciences were created as areas of legitimate study, much of their content for the use of teenage university students. There was also a modest literary revival ... ”
