Narratives of Enlightenment - Cosmopolitan History From Voltaire to Gibbon

Informationen zum Autor Cooking ideas simple meals visual, great for people on spectrum Zusammenfassung Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the eighteenth century - Voltaire! David Hume! William Robertson! Edward Gibbon! and the historian of the American Revolution! David Ramsay - and reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements and author's note; 1. Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history; 2. Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history; 3. European contexts in Hume's History of England; 4. William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history; 5. Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires; 6. Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; 7. David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: &apos, Dr. Karen brien, O&apos, Karen O'Brien, Dr. Karen O''brien
• Assisted by: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor), John J. Richetti (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619448
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61944-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies