Mark Towsey

Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750-c.1840

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the success of historical literature from the perspective of the reading audience in the period c.1750-c.1840. Drawing on a variety of sources including marginalia, letters, diaries and commonplace books, it reveals why histories were so popular, and how they were used by readers across the English-speaking world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781108716185
• ISBN-10: 1108716180
• Artikelnr.: 60719377

Autorenporträt

Mark Towsey is Professor in the History of the Book and Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. His previous publications include Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 (2010) and Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 'History now is the favourite reading'
1. History and the life cycle of the reader
2. Sceptical historiography and the problem of infidelity
3. Contesting constitutional history
4. A nation united? Histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
5. Rewriting the American nation
6. Historical information and the management of Empire
Conclusion
Bibliography.