Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 [electronic resource] : Visions of History /
Dew, B.editor.
Price, F.editor.
Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well as addressing more conventional varieties of historical writing.
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Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Visions of History; 1 Female Worthies and the Genres of Women's History; 2 Reading the Past: Women Writers and the Afterlives of Lady Rachel Russell; 3 Constructing the 'English School': Contested Narratives of Nation in the Writing of Richard Graham and Bainbrigg Buckeridge; 4 An Economic Turn?: Commerce and Finance in the Historical Writing of Paul de Rapin Thoyras, William Guthrie and David Hume; 5 'Caledonian plagiary': The Role and Meaning of Ireland in the Poems of Ossian
6 Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's History of America7 Lyricist in Britain;  Empiricist in France: Volney's Divided Legacy; 8 Making History: Social Unrest, Work and the Post-French Revolution Historical Novel; 9 Don Quixote and the Sentimental Reader of History in the Works of William Godwin; 10 Fictions of History, Evangelical Whiggism and the Debate over Old Mortality in Scotland and Nova Scotia; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well as addressing more conventional varieties of historical writing.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Great Britain—History.
Literary Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.