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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... 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, MEMOIR, AND THE IDEA OF COMMEMORATION IN ...
... history came into its own with the appearance of Hume,s History of England, the first two volumes of which were published in 1754 and 1757, and with Voltaire,s Essai sur les moeurs (1756), while for conjectural history, the equivalent ...
... conjectural historian to speculate on the sentiments of the ancient Britons ... history. A key unifying element was this pervasive eighteenth-century ... history, but it also made both men and women creatures of custom and habit. These ...
... history of efforts to define the purpose of poetry—but in the terms I have underlined they evidently had a special ... conjectural histories—the intellectual avant-garde of Enlightenment historiography—abandoned conventional narrative ...
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