Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834

by Barton Swaim

Overview

Why were Scottish writers able to dominate the field of periodical literature throughout the nineteenth-century? Barton Swaim's Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834 attempts an answer to that question by examining the period when the Scots' dominance was at its height: the three decades after the founding of the Edinburgh Review in 1802. In this carefully researched and thoughtful study, Swaim discusses the ways in which four writers in the vanguard of Scottish periodical-writing—Francis Jeffrey, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, and Thomas Carlyle—exemplify the historical and cultural dynamics that occasioned Scottish dominance of what Jürgen Habermas would later call the public sphere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611483116
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	03/01/2009
Series:	Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Barton Swaim received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where he works in the Office of the Governor.