Narratives of enlightenment : cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon

Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the 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; and it investigates the nature and degree of their intellectual investment in the idea of a common European civilisation. Karen O'Brien combines the methodologies of literary criticism and intellectual history to explore debates about Enlightenments and the political uses of narrative. Where previous studies have emphasised the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, she reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.

著者

O'Brien, Karen, Dr、 Erskine-Hill Howard、 Richetti John、O'Brien Dr. Karen

出版社

Cambridge University Press

発売日

1997年1月発売

価格

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ISBN

9780521465335

発売済み