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Author O'Brien, Karen (Karen Elisabeth)

Title Narratives of enlightenment : cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon / Karen O'Brien
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 34
Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 34.
Contents Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history -- Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history -- European contexts in Hume's History of England -- William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history -- Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires -- Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and fall of the Roman Empire -- David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution -- Afterwood -- Selected secondary studies of the work of individual historians -- Selected general studies of historical writing in the eighteenth century
Summary A reappraisal of the work of five major narrative historians (Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Gibbon and Ramsay) in eighteenth-century Europe and America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Voltaire 1694-1778 gnd
Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794 gnd
Hume, David 1711-1776 gnd
Ramsay, David 1749-1815 gnd
Robertson, William 1721-1793 gnd
Voltaire. swd
Hume, David. swd
Robertson, William (Historiker) swd
Gibbon, Edward. swd
Ramsay, David. swd
University of South Alabama gnd
Europa gnd
Subject Literature and history.
Enlightenment.
Intellectual life -- History.
Intellectual life.
Enlightenment
Intellectual life -- History
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Literature and history
Geschichtsschreibung
Nationalbewusstsein
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Geschiedschrijving.
Wereldburgerschap.
Nationalbewusstsein -- History.
Frankreich
Gro©britannien.
Schottland
USA
Europa
Genre/Form History
Hochschulschrift.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96036667
ISBN 0511519079
9780511519079
0511007159
9780511007156