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Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon

Hardback

Main Details

Title Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Karen O'Brien
SeriesCambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:268
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 160
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521465335
ClassificationsDewey:907.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 5 June 1997
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Reviews

'Compellingly lucid and elegant.' Sir Tony Wrigley, President of the British Academy