Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

1. Introduction: Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
Thomas Ahnert, Susan Manning

2. Reid and Hume on the Possibility of Character
James A. Harris

3. Adam Smith’s Rhetorical Art of Character
Stephen J. McKenna

4. The Moral Education of Mankind: Character and Religious Moderatism in the Sermons of Hugh Blair
Thomas Ahnert

5. The Not-So-Prodigal Son: James Boswell and the Scottish Enlightenment
Anthony LaVopa

6. Character, Sociability, and Correspondence: Elizabeth Griffith and The Letters between Henry and Frances
Eve Tavor Bannet

7. William Smellie’s Dreams: Character and Consciousness in the Scottish Enlightenment
Phyllis Mack

8. Aspects of Character and Sociability in Scottish Enlightenment Medicine
Neil Vickers

9. The “Peculiar Colouring of the Mind”: Character and Painted Portraiture in the Scottish Enlightenment
Viccy Coltman

10. National Characters and Race: A Scottish Enlightenment Debate
Silvia Sebastiani

11. Character and Cosmopolitanism in the Scottish-American Enlightenment
Hannah Spahn

12. Historical Characters: Biography, the Science of Man, and Romantic Fiction
Susan Manning

13. Necessity, Freedom, and Character Formation from the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth
Jerrold Seigel

Nyckelord: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Social History, Literature, general, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Modern History