Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521465335)

Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the eighteenth 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. Where previous studies have emphasized the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, Karen O'Brien reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.

Author: Karen O'Brien
ISBN-10: 0521465338
ISBN-13: 9780521465335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/05/1997
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.42w x 0.89d