Crowded with Genius: Edinburgh, 1745-1789Harper Collins, 13 жовт. 2009 р. - 464 стор. In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economics—all of which continue to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations. James Boswell produced The Life of Samuel Johnson. Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. In Crowded with Genius, James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of a historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being. |
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... Scott that once the return mail brought just a single letter for the whole of Scotland . " A stagecoach ran monthly to London , spending at least ten days on the road , though a private chaise could do the journey faster . It was not ...
... or coal - porters and barefoot housemaids . Sir Walter Scott , who had lost six siblings to the bad air of College Wynd , remembered in the next century that each inhabitable space ' was crowded like 6 CROWDED WITH GENIUS.
... , a little park on the southern outskirts of the town , and an early dinner , 36 Sir Walter Scott , the great novelist of the early nineteenth cen- tury , was fascinated by the Edinburgh of his parents ΙΟ CROWDED WITH GENIUS.
... Scott's Redgauntlet : 57 so the Countess of Balcarres in the High Street , while her servant John leaned against the bed - post , handled the tea - kettle and con- tributed conversation.58 Henry Mackenzie , who was born in 1745 ...
... the Kirk's autonomy and had the perverse effect , as Sir Walter Scott put it in Heart of Midlothian , of bringing the most scrupulous Presbyterians to the side of Porteous's killers and the town : ' since to the AULD REEKIE 21.
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4 | 57 |
Smaller Joys from Less Important Causes | 119 |
Torrents of Wind | 173 |
The Savage and the Shopkeeper | 208 |
The Art of Dancing | 241 |
Earth to Earth | 289 |
The Man of Feeling | 398 |
Notes | 412 |
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