Karen O'Brien (University of Wales College of Cardiff)

Narratives of Enlightenment

Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
Herausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard; Richetti, John J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the eighteenth century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon, and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - and reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national issues.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780521619448
• ISBN-10: 0521619440
• Artikelnr.: 22006478

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Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements and author's note
1. Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history
2. Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history
3. European contexts in Hume's History of England
4. William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history
5. Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires
6. Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
7. David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution
Afterword
Bibliography
Index.