Phillips Society and Sentiment

Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2362-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 369 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Mark Salber

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

List of Abbreviations xix

Introduction: "The More Permanent and Peaceful Scenes of Social Life" 3

THE ENGLISH PARNASSUS 31

1. David Hume and the Vocabularies of British Historiography 33

2. Hume and the Politics and Poetics of Historical Distance 60

NARRATIVES AND READERS 79

3. Tensions and Accommodations: Varieties of Structure in Eighteenth-Century Narrative 81

4. History, the Novel, and the Sentimental Reader 103

LIVES, MANNERS, AND "THE HISTORY OF MAN" 129

5. Biography and the History of Private Life 131

6. Manners and the Many Histories of Everyday Life: Custom, Commerce, Women, and Literature 147

7. Conjectural History: A History of Manners and of Mind 171

CONTINUITIES 191

8. James Mackintosh: The Historian as Reader 193

9. Burke, Mackintosh, and the Idea of Tradition 220

LITERARY HISTORY, MEMOIR, AND THE IDEA OF COMMEMORATION IN EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN 257

10. "The Comedy of Middle Life": Francis Jeffrey and Literary History 259

11. "The Living Character of Bygone Ages": Memoir and the Historicization of Everyday Life 295

12. William Godwin and the Idea of Commemoration 322

Conclusion: Historical Distance and the Reception of Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing 342

Bibliography 351

Index 367

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Salber Phillips is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. His other books include Francesco Guicciardini: The Historian's Craft and The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence (Princeton).