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—in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America. Where previous studies have emphasized the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, Karen O'Brien reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.
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Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
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—in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America. Where previous studies have emphasized the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, Karen O'Brien reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780521619448 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 02/17/2005 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought , #34 |
| Edition description: | REISSUE |
| Pages: | 268 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
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