Historical writing in Britain, 1688-...
Dew, Benjamin,

 

  • Historical writing in Britain, 1688-1830[electronic resource] :visions of history /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9358
    書名/作者: Historical writing in Britain, 1688-1830 : visions of history // Edited by Benjamin Dew, Fiona Price.
    作者: Dew, Benjamin,
    其他作者: Price, Fiona L,
    出版者: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2014.
    面頁冊數: 240 p.
    附註: Electronic book text.
    標題: Historiography - History - 18th century - Great Britain.
    標題: Literature and history - History - 18th century - Great Britain.
    標題: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 - English.
    標題: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 - English.
    標題: Literature.
    ISBN: 1137332646 (electronic bk.) :
    ISBN: 9781137332639
    ISBN: 9781137332646 (electronic bk.) :
    內容註: Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1. Introduction: Visions of History-- Ben Dew and Fiona Price 2. Female Worthies and the Genres of Women's History-- Philip Hicks 3. Reading the past: women writers and the afterlives of Lady Rachel Russell-- Amy Culley 4. Constructing the 'English School': Contested Narratives of Nation in the Writing of Richard Graham and Bainbrigg Buckeridge-- Caroline Good 5. An Economic Turn?: Commerce and Finance in the Historical Writing of Paul de Rapin Thoyras, William Guthrie and David Hume-- Ben Dew 6. 'Caledonian plagiary': The Role and Meaning of Ireland in The Poems of Ossian-- Dafydd Moore 7. Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's History of America-- Charlotte Roberts 8. Lyricist in Britain-- Mathematical Empiricist in France: Volney's Divided Legacy-- Sanja Perovic 9. Making History: Social Unrest, Work and the Post-French Revolution Historical Novel-- Fiona Price 10. Don Quixote and the Sentimental Reader of History in the works of William Godwin-- Noelle Gallagher 11. Fictions of History, Evangelical Whiggism, and the Debate over Old Mortality in Scotland and Nova Scotia-- Valerie Wallace Bibliography Index.
    摘要、提要註: Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well as addressing more conventional varieties of historical writing.
    電子資源: Online journal 'available contents' page
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