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Virtuous Discourse, J. Dwyer: Hardback: 1st Edition: 18th Century Scotland
Virtuous Discourse, J. Dwyer: Hardback: 1st Edition: 18th Century Scotland
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Virtuous Discourse: Sensibility and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.
By John Dwyer.
Published by John Donald, Edinburgh, 1987. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket (unclipped), 204 pages.
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Overall good condition, fading to spine and partial rear of dustjacket , see photos. No names or writing.
The moral preoccupations of eighteenth-century Scotsmen have not received the attention that they deserve and while the concept of virtuous discourse may seem a novel tool for the examination of Scottish culture, the examination of the ethical vocabulary and its usage among the late eighteenth-century Scottish literati does serve two particularly useful functions. Not only does it avoid such increasingly anachronistic perspectives as the Scottish contribution to the disciplines of economics or sociology, but it also allows for reappraisals of Scottish culture based on a wider sample of texts and thinkers.
