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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... 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-Century ...
... Hume or Edward Gibbon nominated for the award in “nonfiction.”) Unfortunately, the modern restriction of literature ... Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon are mentioned. Of these, only Hume is discussed at any length, and his work is ...
... Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970); and W. B. Carnochan, Gibbon's Solitude (Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 1987), but the focus on Hume and Gibbon tells its own story. 6 Louis Mink, “Narrative Form as a Cognitive ...
... Hume's, has been analyzed in anything like this detail, and the ap- proach I have chosen requires me to examine a range of texts that are far less often read. Accordingly, I have chosen to begin with Hume as the single figure who most ...
... Hume,s economic essays in Political Discourses (1752) were the first classics of Scottish political economy, followed by Smith,s Wealth of Nations (1776). Philosophical history came into its own with the appearance of Hume,s History of ...
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |