Between Adam Smith and Walter Scott: Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Czech Culture of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
2020
Abstract
The article outlines the influence of Scottish Enlightenment (Adam Smith, Hugh Blair and William Robertson) on the work of the leading 19th century Czech historian František Palacký. The second part traces the influence of the novels and poetry of Walter Scott on the historical fiction of Karel Hynek Mácha and his greatest poem May.