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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Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Salber Phillips. For Ruth, Sarah, Emma Contents Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: “The More Permanent and.
... genres of historical writing. Both considera- tions have led me to shift attention away from the customary focus on a few great, individual works—the canonical histories of Hume, Robertson, Fergu- son, or Gibbon—to wider questions of genre ...
Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Salber Phillips. desire to enter a counterclaim for the ... genre that quickly became one of the preeminent literatures of social description. For this reason, it may be useful to ...
Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Salber Phillips. the interplay of history and fiction would be to fall into the problem I saw in many studies of the novel, which remap the literary system around one favored genre ...
Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Salber Phillips. narrative structure with those of audience ... genre, shaped as they had been for so long by an ancient and authoritative tradition of political narrative. For no ...
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |