LEADER 03773nam 22006252 450 001 996248112803316 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-139-08570-0 010 $a0-511-51907-9 010 $a0-511-00715-9 024 7 $a2027/heb07654 035 $a(CKB)1000000000442686 035 $a(MH)007517799-4 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208166 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199027 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208166 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239538 035 $a(PQKB)10570471 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511519079 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4637618 035 $a(dli)HEB07654 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007508697 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000442686 100 $a20090326d1997|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNarratives of enlightenment $ecosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon /$fKaren O'Brien$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1997. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;$v34 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-61944-0 311 $a0-521-46533-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aNarratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America; and it investigates the nature and degree of their intellectual investment in the idea of a common European civilisation. Karen O'Brien combines the methodologies of literary criticism and intellectual history to explore debates about Enlightenments and the political uses of narrative. Where previous studies have emphasised the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, she reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues. 410 0$aCambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;$v34. 606 $aLiterature and history$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnlightenment 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aEnlightenment. 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory 676 $a907/.2 700 $aO'Brien$b Karen$g(Karen Elisabeth),$01014826 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248112803316 996 $aNarratives of enlightenment$92366702 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress