List of Tables

pp.：  9 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.：  11 – 14

List of Abbreviations

pp.：  15 – 16

Introduction. " Enlightenment Everywhere": Locating the Reader in the Scottish Enlightenment

pp.：  17 – 36

Part One Encountering Enlightenment

pp.：  37 – 176

I. " One of the Greatest Ornaments to a Gentleman": Private Libraries

pp.：  39 – 71

II. " A Powerful Means of Improving the Neighbourhood": Subscription Libraries

pp.：  72 – 107

III. " Vice and Obscenity Dreadfully Propagated": Circulating Libraries

pp.：  108 – 136

IV. " A Taste for Reading in the Country": Religious and Endowed Libraries

pp.：  137 – 176

Part Two Experiencing Enlightenment

pp.：  177 – 308

V. " This Map of my Mind": Recovering Historical Reading Experiences

pp.：  179 – 212

VI. " A Man of Moderate Passions": Fashioning an Enlightened Self

pp.：  213 – 248

VII. " That Independency which a Whole Nation had Renounced": Negotiating Scottish Identity

pp.：  249 – 277

VIII. " The Patron of Infidelity": Reading Hume and the Common Sense Philosophers

pp.：  278 – 308

Conclusion. " Improved and Enlightened by Reading": A Provincial Enlightenment?

pp.：  309 – 322

Bibliography

pp.：  323 – 366

Index

pp.：  367 – 380