Society and Sentiment : : Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 / / Mark Salber Phillips.
A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosophy. Focusing on this interplay of ideas and genres, Mark Phillips explores the ways in which writers...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: "The More Permanent and Peaceful Scenes of Social Life"
- THE ENGLISH PARNASSUS
- 1. David Hume and the Vocabularies of British Historiography
- 2. Hume and the Politics and Poetics of Historical Distance
- NARRATIVES AND READERS
- 3. Tensions and Accommodations: Varieties of Structure in Eighteenth-Century Narrative
- 4. History, the Novel, and the Sentimental Reader
- LIVES, MANNERS, AND "THE HISTORY OF MAN"
- 5. Biography and the History of Private Life
- 6. Manners and the Many Histories of Everyday Life: Custom, Commerce, Women, and Literature
- 7. Conjectural History: A History of Manners and of Mind
- CONTINUITIES
- 8. James Mackintosh: The Historian as Reader
- 9. Burke, Mackintosh, and the Idea of Tradition
- LITERARY HISTORY, MEMOIR, AND THE IDEA OF COMMEMORATION IN EARLY NINETEENTH- CENTURY BRITAIN
- 10. "The Comedy of Middle Life": Francis Jeffrey and Literary History
- 12. William Godwin and the Idea of Commemoration
- Conclusion. Historical Distance and the Reception of Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing
- Bibliography
- Index