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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... David Hume and the Vocabularies of 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 ...
... David Hume or Edward Gibbon nominated for the award in “nonfiction.”) Unfortunately, the modern restriction of literature to works of “imagination” has divided history and other “nonfictional” genres from a redefined literary field ...
... David Hume's more polished History and now is all but forgotten. Yet in many ways this large work, as laborious in its researches as it was inventive in its narrative arrangements, is more revealing of the tensions that shaped ...
... Hume,s History of England, the first two volumes of which were published in 1754 and 1757, and with Voltaire,s Essai ... David F. Norton and Richard Popkin, eds., David Hume: Philosophical Historian (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965) ...
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