Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914

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Explicitly address the 19th century legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment Explores the multi-stranded legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment in nineteenth-century cultureOffers a fresh approach to relations of faith and unbelief in nineteenth-century Scotland Provides a multi-disciplinary account of nineteenth-century Scottish intellectual concerns, including literature, philosophy, natural science, theology, political economy, anthropology Engages with the influential thesis of George Davie on the character and history of Scottish intellectual life from Enlightenment to twentieth century This collection explores the richness of Scottish intellectual life, its currents and controversies from the French Revolution to the First World War, focusing in particular on the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Offering a series of cutting-edge interventions, the contributors cast light on a range of individuals, themes and episodes from the period. Topics range from the role of women as intellectuals to the rise of a science of race, and from freethinking secularism to the debate over George Davie’s influential account of 19th-century universities. Collectively, the chapters represent a pioneering overview of Scottish intellectual life during the long 19th century. Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Scotland after Enlightenment 2. The Enlightenment Legacy and the Democratic Intellect 3. Dugald Stewart, William Godwin and the Formation of Political Economy 4. The French Revolution and the Transformation of Moderatism: The Silence of the Scribes 5. James Mackintosh: The Science of Politics after the French Revolution 6. Scotland’s Freethinking Societies: Debating Natural Theology, 1820–c.1843 7. Christian Isobel Johnstone: Radical Journalism and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment 8. Robert Mudie: Pioneer Naturalist and Crusading Reformer 9. Theories of Universal Degeneration in Post‑Enlightenment Scotland 10. Robert Knox: The Embittered Scottish Anatomist and his Controversial Race Science in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain 11. Thomas Carlyle and the Scottish Enlightenment Concept of Sympathy 12. Covenanting and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Reformed Presbyterian Political Theory 13. Andrew Lang and the Cosmopolitan Condition 14. Criticism and Freethought, 1880–1914 15. Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Enlightenment in Scottish Criticism Index