num_pages: 268
description: Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the eighteenth century--Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon, and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay--in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America. Where previous studies have emphasized the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, Karen O'Brien reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.
language: English
title: Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
titlecomplete: Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 34)
genres: History
ratings_count: 1
series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
publisher: Cambridge University Press