[Karen O'Brien] Narratives of Enlightenment : Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)(djvu){Zzzzz}[BЯ]

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.

Editorial Reviews
Review
"Karen O'Brien has written an insightful and well-informed account of both the style and ideological foundations of eighteenth-century historiography." American Historical Review

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 13, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521465338
ISBN-13: 978-0521465335


"...a series of illuminating and provocative readings, notable...for their imaginative synthesis and development of previous historical, theoretical, and literary studies in the period." Modern Philology
Book Description
Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the eighteenth century SH Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon, and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay SH in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America. Where previous studies have emphasised the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, Karen O'Brien reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.