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- From: "James G. Carrier" <jgc5p@UVA.PCMAIL.VIRGINIA.EDU>
- Subject: Help: Scot. Enlight.
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- 30 December, 1992
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- Dear Folks,
-
- I need some help with information on the social background of the
- Scottish Enlightenment.
- Smith, Ferguson and the rest criticized an older system in which
- economic and personal relationships overlapped, and advocated the separation
- of these two sorts of relationship. The older system that they criticized is
- one associated with the Scottish Highlands and the loose clan and patronage
- structure that existed there.
- My question is this. Is there an accessible reading that analyses the
- extent to which their arguments were shaped by their response to Jacobean
- risings in the 18th C, which drew substantial support from the Highlands
- region. The sort of shaping I mean can range from the overt (the desire on
- the part of Scottish Enlightenment writers to attack Jacobeans by criticizing
- their social and moral order) to the more subtle (the support and audience
- that those writers could get from people who were opposed to the return of
- Prince Charles).
- Any leads gratefully accepted.
-
- Yours,
-
- James G. Carrier
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