Narratives of Enlightenment (English, Karen O'Brien | Howard Erskine-Hill | John J. Richetti)

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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 rev…

ISBN: 9780521465335