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The Life of William Robertson: Minister, Historian and Principal - Hardcover

Smitten, Jeffrey R.

 
9780748646104: The Life of William Robertson: Minister, Historian and Principal
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ISBN 10: 0748646108 ISBN 13: 9780748646104
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2016

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The first modern biography of William Robertson, a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment

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Jeffrey R. Smitten is Professor Emeritus of English at Utah State University. He is the author of The Life of William Robertson: Minister, Historian, and Principle. He co-edited Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment and with Richard Sher and Nicholas Phillipson, an edition of Robertson’s Works. He also served as Executive Secretary of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.



Jeffrey R. Smitten, Professor Emeritus of English at Utah State University, has published a number of articles on William Robertson and edited Dugald Stewart's biography of Robertson. With Richard B. Sher, he co-edited Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment (1990) and, with Sher and Nicholas Phillipson, an edition of Robertson's Works. He has also served as Executive Secretary of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

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‘Drawing on a host of previously unknown letters, manuscripts and other primary source materials, this book adds significantly to our understanding of Robertson's life, especially as a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman. Thanks to Jeffrey Smitten, the long wait for a modern biography of William Robertson is finally over.’Richard Sher, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyThe first book-length study of Robertson’s life and career in over 200 yearsA prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, William Robertson differed from his better-known contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume, and Gibbon because he used the critical tools of the Enlightenment not to attack religion but to strengthen it.Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, Jeffrey R. Smitten captures both the man and his work in his own words. By foregrounding Robertson’s religious outlook, he offers a more contextualised and nuanced interpretation of his motives and intentions, as well as his beliefs, than we have had before.This biography assesses Robertson’s achievement based on fresh consideration of all facets of his career as minister, historian, and principal.Jeffrey R. Smitten is Professor Emeritus of English at Utah State University.Cover image: William Robertson, Henry Raeburn, 1792, part of The University of Edinburgh Art Collection © The University of EdinburghCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-0-7486-4610-4Barcode

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Verlag
EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748646108
ISBN 13 
9780748646104
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Anzahl der Seiten
280
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