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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... Biography and the History of Private Life 131 6. Manners and the Many Histories of Everyday Life: Custom, Commerce, Women, and Literature 147 7. Conjectural History: A History of Manners and of Mind 171 CONTINUITIES 191 8. James ...
... Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century, ed. D. Castiglione and L. Sharpe (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1995), 196–219. Abbreviations British Library Dictionary of National Biography, 1898 ed. Edinburgh PREFACE xvii.
... Phillips. Abbreviations. British Library Dictionary of National Biography, 1898 ed. Edinburgh Review BL DNB ER MR Monthly Review NLS National Library of Scotland SOCIETY AND SENTIMENT Introduction “The More Permanent and Peaceful Scenes.
... biography or the novel that take history as a countergenre against which to define their own audience and identity. The most easily identifiable reason for the eighteenth century's reframing of historical narrative came from the self ...
... biography or the novel. The discourse of the social incorporates two dimensions of enquiry,. 23 Walter Jackson Bate, The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1970). This newfound confidence is evident in ...
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