Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment....Pages 1-30
Reid and Hume on the Possibility of Character....Pages 31-47
Adam Smith’s Rhetorical Art of Character....Pages 49-65
The Moral Education of Mankind: Character and Religious Moderatism in the Sermons of Hugh Blair....Pages 67-83
The Not-So-Prodigal Son: James Boswell and the Scottish Enlightenment....Pages 85-103
Character, Sociability, and Correspondence: Elizabeth Griffith and The Letters between Henry and Frances....Pages 105-123
William Smellie’s Dreams: Character and Consciousness in the Scottish Enlightenment....Pages 125-144
Aspects of Character and Sociability in Scottish Enlightenment Medicine....Pages 145-161
The “Peculiar Colouring of the Mind”: Character and Painted Portraiture in the Scottish Enlightenment....Pages 163-186
National Characters and Race: A Scottish Enlightenment Debate....Pages 187-205
Character and Cosmopolitanism in the Scottish-American Enlightenment....Pages 207-224
Historical Characters: Biography, the Science of Man, and Romantic Fiction....Pages 225-248
Necessity, Freedom, and Character Formation from the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth....Pages 249-265
Back Matter....Pages 267-298