Author: Vicesimus Knox
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Winter Evenings, Or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters
Author: Vicesimus Knox
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Winter evenings: or, Lucubrations on life and letters [by V. Knox].
Author: Vicesimus Knox
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Category : Life and letters series
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Life and letters series
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Winter Evenings, Or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters
Author: Vicesimus Knox
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Category : Meditations
Languages : en
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Category : Meditations
Languages : en
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The British Essayists
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Society and Sentiment
Author: Mark Salber Phillips
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400823625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosophy. Focusing on this interplay of ideas and genres, Mark Phillips explores the ways in which writers and readers of history, memoir, biography and related literatures responded to the social and sentimental concerns of a modern, commercial society. He shows that the writing of history, which once concentrated exclusively on political events, widened its horizons in ways that often paralleled better-known developments in the contemporary novel. Ultimately, Phillips proposes a new model for the study of historiographical narrative. Countering tropological readings identified with Hayden White, he offers a more historically nuanced approach that stresses questions of genre and reception as a guide to understanding how narratives were reshaped by new audiences and new social needs. Drawing inspiration from both the social analysis of the Scottish Enlightenment and the sentimental aesthetics of the contemporary novel, historical writing began to explore the areas of social experience and private life for which there was no place in classical historiography. The consequence, Phillips argues, was a significant reframing of historical thought that expressed itself through new themes, including the histories of commerce, manners, literature, and women, and through some lively experiments in narrative form. This book offers a rich picture of historiography that will interest students of history and fiction alike.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400823625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosophy. Focusing on this interplay of ideas and genres, Mark Phillips explores the ways in which writers and readers of history, memoir, biography and related literatures responded to the social and sentimental concerns of a modern, commercial society. He shows that the writing of history, which once concentrated exclusively on political events, widened its horizons in ways that often paralleled better-known developments in the contemporary novel. Ultimately, Phillips proposes a new model for the study of historiographical narrative. Countering tropological readings identified with Hayden White, he offers a more historically nuanced approach that stresses questions of genre and reception as a guide to understanding how narratives were reshaped by new audiences and new social needs. Drawing inspiration from both the social analysis of the Scottish Enlightenment and the sentimental aesthetics of the contemporary novel, historical writing began to explore the areas of social experience and private life for which there was no place in classical historiography. The consequence, Phillips argues, was a significant reframing of historical thought that expressed itself through new themes, including the histories of commerce, manners, literature, and women, and through some lively experiments in narrative form. This book offers a rich picture of historiography that will interest students of history and fiction alike.
Elegant Extracts
Author: Vicesimus Knox
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Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: A-L
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Supplement to the Catalogue of the Free Public Library, New Bedford, Mass
Author: Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
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