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Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon

By Karen O’Brien

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521465338, 0511519079, 9780511519079, 9780521465335
LCC
PN50 .O27 1997
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1673004 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Pages
268\264
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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