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Narratives of enlightenment: cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon

O'Brien, Karen, Dr.

Year: c1997.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements and author's note

1 Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history

2 Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history

3 European contexts in Hume's History of England

4 William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history

5 Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires

6 Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

7 David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution

Afterword

Bibliography

Selected secondary studies of the work of individual historians

Selected general studies of historical writing in the eighteenth century

Index

reviews

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Title:

Narratives of enlightenment : cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon / Karen O'Brien.

Author:

O'Brien, Karen, Dr

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Narratives of enlightenment : cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon / Karen O'Brien.
O'Brien, Karen, Dr
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, c1997.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07654

Subject Headings:

• Literature and history
• Enlightenment
• Intellectual life -- History

Notes:

• Based partly on the author's thesis (doctoral)--St. Hugh's College, Oxford.
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