Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon

ISBN-13: 9780521619448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 268 str.

Karen O'Brien; Howard Erskine-Hill; John Richetti

Opis

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.