Making British culture: English readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830

A question of perspective : Scotland and England in the British Enlightenment

"The self-impanelled jury of the English court of criticism" : taste and the making of the canon

"For learning and for arms renown'd" : Scotland in the public mind

"An ample fund of amusement and improvement" : institutional frameworks for reading and reception

Readers and their books : why, where, and how did reading happen?

"One longs to say something" : English readers, Scottish authors, and the contested text

"Many sketches & scraps of sentiments" : commonplacing and the art of reading

Copying and co-opting : owning the text

Reading and meaning : history, travel and political economy

Misreading and misunderstanding : encountering natural religion and Hume

The making of British culture : reading identities in the social history of ideas.