Volumes on Scottish Authors in the Continuum Series "Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe"

Abstract

This review focuses on four volumes in the Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, edited by Elinor Shaffer. These volumes concern eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings, those of David Hume, James Macpherson, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.

Keywords

• reception studies
• David Hume
• James Macpherson
• Robert Burns
• Walter Scott.