39. Scottish Enlightement Flashcards
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What cities were the centres of intellectual activity?
Glasgow, Edinburgh.
What’s Enlightenment?
An intellectual movement.
What important work was founded?
“Encyclopaedia Britannica”.
What’s Adam Smith’s important work on economy? When was it published (according to events)?
“The Wealth of Nations” - the most important work on economics of the 18th century, about the growing importance of America. Was published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence.
What can you say about private writings?
It rises, gets popular. It’s not intended for publication. It’s for the new literate middle class.
What’s the best known example for private writings?
The diary of Samuel Pepys. It was written in a form of code.
What’s the basis for epistolary style?
Letters.
What did Samuel Johnson think of letters?
He ridiculed it and deemed it taught the morality of a whore.
What genre becomes a branch of belles-lettres and gets popular?
Historical writing.
