P. Hicks

Neoclassical History and English Culture

From Clarendon to Hume

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and lesser-known historians of this era, dramatizing them as engaged in a struggle to preserve ancient models of historical composition in the face of a rapidly modernizing society characterized by party politics, print, Christianity, and antiquarian erudition.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Modern History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-65940-3
• 1996
• Seitenzahl: 289
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780333659403
• ISBN-10: 0333659406
• Artikelnr.: 44374303

Autorenporträt

PHILIP HICKS

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements - A Note on Abbreviations, Quotations, and Dates - The Weakness in English Historical Writing - Neo-classical History and the Modern World - Clarendon as the English Thucydides - Dr Brady and the History of England - The Death of Thucydidean History - General History in an Age of Party - David Hume as a Neo-Classical Historian -Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index