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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... London first opened up for me in a concrete way some possibilities for enlarg- ing the conversation between those of us interested in the historiography of this period and those who study the novel. Mary Catherine Moran, once a student ...
... Written On A New Plan, 6th ed. (London, 1823). Subsequent citations appear in the text. Henry's sixth volume, edited by Laing, appeared posthumously with a “Life” of the without ever attending to their conduct and condition, in the.
... (London: Weidenfeld, 1966). On some problems in Momigliano's conception of disciplinary progress in this period, see Phillips, “Reconsiderations on History and Antiquarianism: Arnaldo Momigliano and the Historiography of Eighteenth ...
... London, 1994), 41–42. 12 It is not always easy to make this plural sense explicit; “the genres of historical writing” makes too awkward a phrase to repeat very often. I would like, however, to be understood as referring to history in ...
... ,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1992): 1–27; and Cheryl Turner, Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1992). 16 In this context, it is worth considering the contrasting SCENES OF SOCIAL LIFE 11.
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |
Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |