Description |
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) |
Series |
Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 34 |
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Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 34.
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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 |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Voltaire 1694-1778 gnd |
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Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794 gnd |
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Hume, David 1711-1776 gnd |
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Ramsay, David 1749-1815 gnd |
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Robertson, William 1721-1793 gnd |
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Voltaire. swd |
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Hume, David. swd |
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Robertson, William (Historiker) swd |
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Gibbon, Edward. swd |
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Ramsay, David. swd |
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University of South Alabama gnd |
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Europa gnd |
Subject |
Literature and history.
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Enlightenment.
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Intellectual life -- History.
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Intellectual life.
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Enlightenment
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Intellectual life -- History
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Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
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Enlightenment
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Intellectual life
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Literature and history
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Wereldburgerschap.
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Nationalbewusstsein -- History.
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Frankreich
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Gro©britannien.
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Schottland
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USA
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Europa
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Genre/Form |
History
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Hochschulschrift.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
96036667 |
ISBN |
0511519079 |
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9780511519079 |
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0511007159 |
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9780511007156 |
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