Making British Culture

Explores the emergence of a British culture by examining the experiences of English readers between 1707 and 1830 as they grappled with the effusion of Scottish authorship. This book features examples including David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Robert Burns and Walter Scott.
Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship - including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott - that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.