Tuesday 7 December 2010

why I love Edinburgh, sometimes?

Two papers made me to.

Robert W. Rix's "Oriental Odin: Tracing the east in northern culture and literature," History of European Ideas, Vol. 36, Issue 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 47-60. Thomas Percy (1729-1811). It draws me to The Percy Letters (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944-88), which are not available locally but in Edinburgh (hooray! will meet them soon in the coming summer), and James Watt's "Thomas Percy, China, and the Gothic," The Eighteen Century, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 95-109.
Ruth Scurr's "Inequality and political stability from Ancien Régime to revolution: The reception of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments in France," History of European Ideas, Vol. 35, Issue 4, Dec. 2009, pp. 47-60. Another paper leads me to some further readings; they are Kenneth E. Carpenter's The dissemination of The wealth of nations in French and in France, 1776-1843 (New York : Bibliographical Society of America, 2002), which is, again, not available in HK but in the NLS.
Additional reading: Brian Dolan's "Second opinions: history, medical humanities and medical education," Social History of Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 393-405.

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