Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity : Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600-1800 (Paperback)

Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. The ideal of Scottish literacy; 2. Structures and trends in illiteracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 3. Illiteracy in mid seventeenth-century Britain; 4. The reasons for literacy; 5. Measures of literacy; 6. Oral culture and literate culture; 7. The politics of literacy; 8. Literacy and the Scottish identity; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.