Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
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the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS) is about to be
mailed to members of the society. A brief description of the contents follows:
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS ITEMS
The joint ECSSS-EC/ASECS conference held at Philadelphia in Oct. 1992
Plans for the joint ECSSS-Hume Society conference in Ottawa, 6-10 July
Call for Papers for the 1994 ECSSS conference, ``Scotland and the
Americas,'' sponsored by the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I.,
8-11 June 1994 (send proposals to Ned Landsman, Dept. of History, State U.
of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348 by 30 Sept. 1993)
Information on the 1995 conference, ``Jacobitism, Scotland and the
Enlightenment,'' to be held at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in late
July-early August 1995
Announcement of ``Edinburgh Studies in Intellectual History,'' a new
book series published by Edinburgh University Press
Announcement of the formation of the Adam Smith Society
Announcement of the exhibit of John Slezer's views of Scotland from the
1690s at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, June-October 1993
Report on the conference on ``The Enlightenment: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives'' at the U. of Victoria, B.C., Canada, mid-April 1993
Report on recent and forthcoming ECSSS activities at ASECS conferences
Announcement of the publication of Dwyer and Sher, eds., Sociability
and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1993),
softcover, which originally appeared as a special double issue of Eighteenth-
Century Life in 1991. It is available to ECSSS members at the special price
of $15 or 8 pounds sterling, and all royalties benefit the society.
Announcement of the 1994 Hume Society conference in Rome, 20-24 June
``Members on the Move''--information about activities and accomplish-
ments of individual members of the society
ARTICLES:
Fania Oz-Salzberger (Wolfson College, Oxford), ``From Male Citizen to
Neuter Mensch: The Emasculation of Adam Ferguson's Civic Discourse by the
German Enlightenment'' (drawing upon original research in her recent Oxford
doctoral thesis, the author shows how the strong civic component in Ferguson's
philosophy was literally lost in translation into German, with the result that
the Scottish Enlightenment's most ``masculine'' thinker was transformed into
a fully domesticated philosopher of Piestist serenity)
James Moore (Concordia University) & M. A. Stewart (University of
Lancaster), ``A Scots-Irish Bookseller in Holland: William Smith of Amsterdam
(1698-1741)'' (the authors trace Smith's career from Ulster to Amsterdam, where
he edited a leading French-language journal, the Bibliotheque Raisonnee, from
1728 to 1741, and they argue that he is in fact the mysterious ``Mr Smith''
referred to by David Hume in correspondence with Francis Hutcheson)
Richard B. Sher (NJIT/Rutgers University-Newark), ``Tales of Boswell:
A Review Essay'' (in addition to the 3-volume Catalogue of the Papers of
James Boswell at Yale University, just published by Edinburgh U. Press and
Yale U. Press, the reviewer discusses the reissue of Boswell's London Journal,
John Wain's new compilation of excerpts from Boswell's journals, and two
extraordinary films that are now available on videocassette)
BOOK REVIEWS:
Songs of Robert Burns, ed. Donald A. Low (1993), by Carol McGuirk
Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature (1992), by Paul Bator
John Christian Laursen, The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients,
Montaigne, Hume and Kant (1992), by Marie A. Martin
John B. Stewart, Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy
(1992), by F. L. von Holthoon
Giancarlo Carabelli, Intorno a Hume (1992), by John Christian Laursen
Adam Smith Reviewed, ed. Peter Jones and Andrew S. Skinner (1992),
by Henry C. Clark
William Cullen and the Eighteenth Century Medical World, ed. A. Doig
et al. (1993), by Deborah Brunton
Dennis R. Dean, James Hutton and the History of Geology (1992), by
Paul Wood
Paul H. Scott, Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of Union (1992), by
David Armitage
Murray G. H. Pittock, The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth and
the Scottish Identity (1991), by Leith Davis
Michael Fry, The Dundas Despotism (1992), by Bruce P. Lenman
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica
and the Chesapeake 1740-1800 (1992), by Michael Fry
Ian and Kathleen Whyte, The Changing Scottish Landscape 1500-1800
(1991), by Charles W. J. Withers
Architectural Heritage 1: William Adam, ed. Deborah Howard (1990), by
W. A. Brogden
Greg Clingham, James Boswell: The Life of Johnson (1992), by William
Zachs
Enlightened Scotland: A Study and Selection of Scottish Philosophical
Prose from the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, ed. Philip Flynn
(1992), by Thomas D. Kennedy
RECENT ARTICLES AND THESES BY ECSSS MEMBERS
If you are a member of ECSSS, you will be receiving your copy of Eighteenth-
Century Scotland within the next two weeks. If you are not currently a member,
you are invited to join the society by sending $10 U.S. or 6 pounds U.K.
(payable to ``ECSSS'') to Richard B. Sher, Executive Secretary-ECSSS, Dept.
of Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
A copy of this issue of Eighteenth-Century Scotland will be sent to you as
soon as possible. Institutions may subscribe for twice the individual fees.