| Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon Contributor(s): O'Brien, Karen (Author), Erskine-Hill, Howard (Editor), Richetti, John J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521465338 ISBN-13: 9780521465335 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 907.2 |
| LCCN: 96036667 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature & Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.42" W x 9.36" (1.18 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |