Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820Princeton University Press, 2000 M05 1 - 369 pages A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosophy. Focusing on this interplay of ideas and genres, Mark Phillips explores the ways in which writers and readers of history, memoir, biography and related literatures responded to the social and sentimental concerns of a modern, commercial society. He shows that the writing of history, which once concentrated exclusively on political events, widened its horizons in ways that often paralleled better-known developments in the contemporary novel. Ultimately, Phillips proposes a new model for the study of historiographical narrative. Countering tropological readings identified with Hayden White, he offers a more historically nuanced approach that stresses questions of genre and reception as a guide to understanding how narratives were reshaped by new audiences and new social needs. |
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... British Historiography 2. Hume and the Politics and Poetics of Historical Distance NARRATIVES AND READERS ix xix 3 31 33 60 79 3. Tensions and Accommodations: Varieties of Structure in Eighteenth-Century Narrative 81 4. History, the ...
... British Enlightenment. Its central chapters explore the ways in which histori- ans, biographers, antiquarians, memorialists, literary historians, and others sought to represent the social world of everyday life as well as the inward ...
... British Novel (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995). Zimmerman's study of eighteenth-century fiction claims also to be centrally concerned with the historiography of this period, but it is notable that among eighteenth-century historians, only ...
... British historiography. Rather it traces two dimensions of historical writing— the “society and sentiment” of the title—through what I hope is a sufficient number of works and genres to show a reframing of historical thought and writing ...
... British Columbia for support in preparation of the final manuscript. I am pleased also to have this opportunity to acknowledge the invaluable help of Callista Kelly and Laurie Campbell of Carleton University Library, of Pam Cremona of ...
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |