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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... Scenes of Social Life” THE ENGLISH PARNASSUS 1. David Hume and the Vocabularies of British Historiography 2. Hume and the Politics and Poetics of Historical Distance NARRATIVES AND READERS ix xix 3 31 33 60 79 3. Tensions and ...
... Abbreviations. British Library Dictionary of National Biography, 1898 ed. Edinburgh Review BL DNB ER MR Monthly Review NLS National Library of Scotland SOCIETY AND SENTIMENT Introduction “The More Permanent and Peaceful Scenes.
Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Salber Phillips. SOCIETY AND SENTIMENT Introduction “The More Permanent and Peaceful Scenes of Social Life”
... Scenes of Social Life” ROBERT HENRY'S History of Great Britain from the Invasion by the Romans under Julius Caesar (1771–93) has never enjoyed the reputation of David Hume's more polished History and now is all but forgotten. Yet in ...
... scenes of social life? Are we now in possession of prodigious stores of natural, moral, and religious knowledge; of a vast variety of elegant and useful arts; of an almost unbounded trade, which pours the productions of every climate at ...
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |