Neoclassical History And English Culture
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Neoclassical History And English Culture
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Author : P. Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1996-10-11
Neoclassical History And English Culture written by P. Hicks and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-11 with History categories.
This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and lesser-known historians of this era, dramatizing them as engaged in a struggle to preserve ancient models of historical composition in the face of a rapidly modernizing society characterized by party politics, print, Christianity, and antiquarian erudition.
Neo Classical History And English Culture
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Author : Philip Stephen Hicks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Neo Classical History And English Culture written by Philip Stephen Hicks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Classicism categories.
This book shows how our idea of history was shaped by historians and their readers in eighteenth-century England. Philip Hicks reinterprets the historical writing of the early-modern era as a vibrant clash between ancient models for historical composition and a modernizing culture characterized by party politics, print, Christianity and antiquarian erudition, and traces the social, literary and political implications of neoclassical history for English culture at large. By paying unprecedented attention to historical genres and audiences, this study overturns the orthodox view of David Hume as simply a 'philosophical historian' and portrays him instead as a celebrated peer of Livy and Tacitus. By resuscitating neoclassical historiography, both Hume and the 1st Earl of Clarendon breathed life into their disparate political programs; by failing to come to grips with neoclassical ideals, Jonathan Swift and Lord Bolingbroke languished in the coveted role of Thucydidean historian of one's own times.
The Uses Of History In Early Modern England
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Author : Paulina Kewes
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006
The Uses Of History In Early Modern England written by Paulina Kewes and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
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The Oxford History Of Classical Reception In English Literature The Oxford History Of Classical Reception In English Literature
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Author : David Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-27
The Oxford History Of Classical Reception In English Literature The Oxford History Of Classical Reception In English Literature written by David Hopkins and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with History categories.
"The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.
Queen Boudica And Historical Culture In Britain
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Author : Martha Vandrei
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Queen Boudica And Historical Culture In Britain written by Martha Vandrei and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with History categories.
Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica, exploring her presence in British historical discourse, from the early-modern rediscovery of the works of Tacitus to the first historical films of the early twentieth century. In doing so, the book seeks to demonstrate the continuity and persistence of historical ideas across time and throughout a variety of media. This focus on continuity leads into an examination of the nature of history as a cultural phenomenon and the implications this has for our own conceptions of history and its role in culture more generally. While providing contemporary contextual readings of Boudica's representations, Martha Vandrei also explores the unique nature of historical ideas as durable cultural phenomena, articulated by very different individuals over time, all of whom were nevertheless engaged in the creative process of making history. Thus this study presents a challenge to the axioms of cultural history, new historicism, and other mainstays of twentieth- and twenty-first- century historical scholarship. It shows how, long before professional historians sought to monopolise historical practice, audiences encountered visions of past ages created by antiquaries, playwrights, poets, novelists, and artists, all of which engaged with, articulated, and even defined the meaning of 'historical truth'. This book argues that these individual depictions, variable audience reactions, and the abiding notion of history as truth constitute the substance of historical culture.
Landscape Literature And English Religious Culture 1660 1800
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Author : R. Mayhew
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-03-15
Landscape Literature And English Religious Culture 1660 1800 written by R. Mayhew and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-15 with Philosophy categories.
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the 'long' Eighteenth-century. Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about the nature of Eighteenth-century English culture; this book surveys those debates and offers a provocative new account. Mayhew shows that describing landscape was a religiously contested practice, and that different theological positions led differing authors to different descriptive approaches. Landscape description, then, shows English intellectual life still in the grips of a Christian and classical mentality in the 'long' Eighteenth-century.
David Hume
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Author : Mark G. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
David Hume written by Mark G. Spencer and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with History categories.
This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study. Aside from the editor, the contributors are David Allan, M. A. Box, Timothy M. Costelloe, Roger L. Emerson, Jennifer Herdt, Philip Hicks, Douglas Long, Claudia M. Schmidt, Michael Silverthorne, Jeffrey M. Suderman, Mark R. M. Towsey, and F. L. van Holthoon.
Books And Their Readers In 18th Century England
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Author : Isabel Rivers
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-06-01
Books And Their Readers In 18th Century England written by Isabel Rivers and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades.
Historical Writing In Britain 1688 1830
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Author : B. Dew
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-21
Historical Writing In Britain 1688 1830 written by B. Dew and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Letters And Cultural Transformations In The United States 1760 1860
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Author : Sharon M. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Letters And Cultural Transformations In The United States 1760 1860 written by Sharon M. Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural developments. Rejecting the common categorization of letters as primarily private documents, this collection of essays demonstrates the genre's persistent public engagements with changing cultural dynamics of the revolutionary, early republican, and antebellum eras. Sections of the collection treat letters' implication in transatlanticism, authorship, and reform movements as well as the politics and practices of editing letters. The wide range of authors considered include Mercy Otis Warren, Charles Brockden Brown, members of the Emerson and Peabody families, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Stoddard, Catherine Brown, John Brown, and Harriet Jacobs. The volume is particularly relevant for researchers in U.S. literature and history, as well as women's writing and periodical studies. This dynamic collection offers scholars an exemplary template of new approaches for exploring an understudied yet critically important literary genre.