Making British Culture

<p><em>Making British Culture</em> 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. </p>