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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... understanding all of this in a broad context of contemporary intellectual life. At the same time, since histories are not. tory and English Culture (New York: St. Martin's, 1996); Laird Okie, Augustan Historical Writing (Lanham, Md ...
... understanding.”6 Mink also stressed the complexity and diversity of narrative forms, and he observed that “only a beginning has been made toward understanding the structure of complex narra- tives and the classification of kinds of ...
... understanding as it is to a theoreti- cal (or structural) one. Indeed, historical narrative has had a long and complex history, which, like any other great subject, calls for retelling in all its variety and detail. Such a history, of ...
... understanding to incorporate a range of social activities well beyond the limits of traditional historiography as written on humanist lines. On the other, Henry wanted as far as possible to save the appearances of linear narrative ...
... understanding. Much. 3 Jane Austen to Martha Lloyd, November 13, 1800, Jane Austen's Letters, ed. Deirdre Le Faye, 3d ed. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995), 59. 4 On the economic thought of the earlier period, see 6 INTRODUCTION.
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 Mark Phillips No preview available - 2000 |