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Narratives of Enlightenment
Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
其他書名
Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
出版Cambridge University Press, 1997
ISBN05214653389780521465335
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Q9bOow5IFUwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Narratives 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.