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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... Commerce, Women, and Literature 147 7. Conjectural History: A History of Manners and of Mind 171 CONTINUITIES 191 8. James Mackintosh: The Historian as Reader 193 9. Burke, Mackintosh, and the Idea of Tradition 220 LITERARY HISTORY ...
... Commerce, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985), and The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law, rev. ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987); Philip Hicks, Neoclassical History and English Culture (New York: St. Martin's, 1996); ...
... commerce, and manners” (xxxiv). Are these sub- jects, he asked rhetorically, unworthy to be included in the history of a country where learning, arts, and commerce flourish? Should history be written As these comments indicate, Henry ...
... Commerce, Coin and Shipping, You will find the least entertaining, but the next Eveng:'s portion [i.e. manners] will make amends.” If individual readers had the freedom to single out themes most appropriate to their private occupations ...
... commerce of ideas with unknown others, that there was a market for words, and that ideas had become a kind of property.15 Examining these sorts of gestures will not, with some exceptions, give a picture of the responses of actual ...
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |