LEADER 05469nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910780053603321 005 20230207223010.0 010 $a1-4008-0623-2 010 $a1-282-76702-X 010 $a9786612767029 010 $a1-4008-2362-5 010 $a1-4008-1299-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823628 035 $a(CKB)111056486501418 035 $a(EBL)617321 035 $a(OCoLC)705527109 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224098 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200151 035 $a(PQKB)10676359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617321 035 $a(OCoLC)614538006 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36091 035 $a(DE-B1597)446162 035 $a(OCoLC)979578022 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823628 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617321 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031968 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276702 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486501418 100 $a19990923d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSociety and sentiment$b[electronic resource] $egenres of historical writing in Britain, 1740-1820 /$fMark Salber Phillips 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00867-1 311 0 $a0-691-03179-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-365) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction: "The More Permanent and Peaceful Scenes of Social Life" --$tTHE ENGLISH PARNASSUS --$t1. David Hume and the Vocabularies of British Historiography --$t2. Hume and the Politics and Poetics of Historical Distance --$tNARRATIVES AND READERS --$t3. Tensions and Accommodations: Varieties of Structure in Eighteenth-Century Narrative --$t4. History, the Novel, and the Sentimental Reader --$tLIVES, MANNERS, AND "THE HISTORY OF MAN" --$t5. Biography and the History of Private Life --$t6. Manners and the Many Histories of Everyday Life: Custom, Commerce, Women, and Literature --$t7. Conjectural History: A History of Manners and of Mind --$tCONTINUITIES --$t8. James Mackintosh: The Historian as Reader --$t9. Burke, Mackintosh, and the Idea of Tradition --$tLITERARY HISTORY, MEMOIR, AND THE IDEA OF COMMEMORATION IN EARLY NINETEENTH- CENTURY BRITAIN --$t10. "The Comedy of Middle Life": Francis Jeffrey and Literary History --$t12. William Godwin and the Idea of Commemoration --$tConclusion. Historical Distance and the Reception of Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aA deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosophy. Focusing on this interplay of ideas and genres, Mark Phillips explores the ways in which writers and readers of history, memoir, biography and related literatures responded to the social and sentimental concerns of a modern, commercial society. He shows that the writing of history, which once concentrated exclusively on political events, widened its horizons in ways that often paralleled better-known developments in the contemporary novel. Ultimately, Phillips proposes a new model for the study of historiographical narrative. Countering tropological readings identified with Hayden White, he offers a more historically nuanced approach that stresses questions of genre and reception as a guide to understanding how narratives were reshaped by new audiences and new social needs. Drawing inspiration from both the social analysis of the Scottish Enlightenment and the sentimental aesthetics of the contemporary novel, historical writing began to explore the areas of social experience and private life for which there was no place in classical historiography. The consequence, Phillips argues, was a significant reframing of historical thought that expressed itself through new themes, including the histories of commerce, manners, literature, and women, and through some lively experiments in narrative form. This book offers a rich picture of historiography that will interest students of history and fiction alike. 606 $aHistoriography$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 606 $aHistoriography$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aHistoriography$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSentimentalism$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistoriography 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial life and customs$y18th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 615 0$aHistoriography$xSocial aspects 615 0$aHistoriography$xHistory 615 0$aHistoriography$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 615 0$aSentimentalism$xSocial aspects 676 $a907/.2041 700 $aPhillips$b Mark$f1946-$01464713 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780053603321 996 $aSociety and sentiment$93674495 997 $aUNINA