Narratives of Enlightenment
Subtitle: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521619448
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Historiography; History-Historiography; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature and history
First sentence: This is a study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past in the work of five eighteenth-century historians, and it is concerned with their endeavours to modify or transform their readers' sense of national self-awareness through the writing of narrative history.