Scottish men of letters and the new public sphere, 1802-1834

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"A mere intellectual bazaar": the Edinburgh review in (and as) the public sphere, 1802-1808 -- "Edinburgh is a talking town": Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition -- "A deal more safe as well as dignified": Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship -- "Our own periodical pulpit": the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.;Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.