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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... essay on the relations between history and fiction. Indeed, at an early stage I too was inclined to see the problem in this light. As my knowledge of the material grew, however, I came to realize that the social and sentimental ...
... essays in Political Discourses (1752) were the first classics of Scottish political economy, followed by Smith,s ... Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), and Kames,s Sketches of the History of Man (1774). The midcentury was ...
... Essay,” in Ankersmit and Kellner, New Philosophy of History. Ankersmit argues that in White's hands historical theory lost its “ab- stract, aprioristic character” and became instead “a new and highly sophisticated form of historiog ...
... Essays, even the Italians, who pioneered the mod- ern study of politics, had barely taken trade into account, though it had since become a preeminent concern for all governments (see chapter 1). Nor was this a casual exclusion ...
... “expressive” literary views of romantic criticism shifted the grounds on which history and fiction competed, in my essay, “Scott, Macaulay, and the Literary Challenge to Historiography,” Journal of SCENES OF SOCIAL LIFE 23.
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |