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

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.