A companion to Enlightenment historiography [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sophie Bourgault and Robert Sparling

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (519 p.)
• Disciplina: 907.2/04
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment
• Altri autori: BourgaultSophie SparlingRobert Alan <1975->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Eighteenth-century historians -- pt. II. Themes and regional contexts.
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates’ stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. Contributors are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, Síofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, François-Emmanuël Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Akça Ataç, and Robert Sparling.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Enlightenment historiography
• ISBN: 90-04-25184-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811857603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Brill's Companions to European History ; 3.