Narratives of Enlightenment : Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521465338
ISBN-13
9780521465335
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
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GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 1997
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
580 grams
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23.60 x 16.00 x 2.40 cms
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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.
Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America; and it investigates the nature and degree of their intellectual investment in the idea of a common European civilisation. Karen O'Brien combines the methodologies of literary criticism and intellectual history to explore debates about Enlightenments and the political uses of narrative. Where previous studies have emphasised the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, she reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.
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