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. people of real literary gifts, and this sensitivity has enriched their readings of earlier historians. Even so, their interest generally lies in the doctrines and ...
Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Salber Phillips. rary intellectual life. At the same time, since histories are not treatises or mani- festos, I do not want to abstract works of history into systems of ideas nor ...
Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Salber Phillips. desire to enter a counterclaim for the distinctive modernity of eighteenth-cen- tury Britain. My intention, rather, is to underscore the importance of history 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 ...
... history of the neglected genres of “nonfiction.” If we could explore the many ages and varieties of historical writing with even a small part of the loving attention that generations of critics have brought to fiction, we would surely ...
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |