ABSTRACT
Scotland (Edinburgh 1985), pp. 133-55 and J. Rendall, The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment (London 1978). Recent major surveys of the Enlightenment with extensive bibliographies include: A. Chitnis, The Scottish Enlightenment: A Social History (London 1976); RH. Campbell and A. Skinner, The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh 1982); D. Daiches, P. Jones and J. Jones, A Hotbed of Genius. The Scottish Enlightenment 1730-90 (Edinburgh 1986); RB. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment (Princeton 1985), The critical bibliography in Sher's book is the best starting place for further reading. C. Camic, Experience and Enlightenment (London 1983) presents a detailed survey of the childhood and backgrounds of some of the main figures. R.L. Emerson, Scotland's universities in the eighteenth century 1690-1800, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 167, 1977, 453-74 looks at the educational background. D. Allan, Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh 1993) is the latest major contribution to the debate.
