Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830: Visions of History

by B. Dew (Editor), F. Price (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137332639
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/29/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Amy Culley, University of Lincoln, UK Ben Dew, University of Portsmouth, UK Noelle Dückmann Gallagher, University of Manchester, UK Caroline Good, University of York, UK Philip Hicks, Saint Mary's College, USA Dafydd Moore, Plymouth University, UK Sanja Perovic, King's College London, UK Fiona Price, University of Chichester, UK Charlotte Roberts, University College London, UK Valerie Wallace, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1. Introduction: Visions of History; Ben Dew and Fiona Price 2. Female Worthies and the Genres of Women's History; Philip Hicks 3. Reading the past: women writers and the afterlives of Lady Rachel Russell; Amy Culley 4. Constructing the 'English School': Contested Narratives of Nation in the Writing of Richard Graham and Bainbrigg Buckeridge; Caroline Good 5. An Economic Turn?: Commerce and Finance in the Historical Writing of Paul de Rapin Thoyras, William Guthrie and David Hume; Ben Dew 6. 'Caledonian plagiary': The Role and Meaning of Ireland in The Poems of Ossian ; Dafydd Moore 7. Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's History of America ; Charlotte Roberts 8. Lyricist in Britain; Mathematical Empiricist in France: Volney's Divided Legacy; Sanja Perovic 9. Making History: Social Unrest, Work and the Post-French Revolution Historical Novel; Fiona Price 10. Don Quixote and the Sentimental Reader of History in the works of William Godwin; Noelle Gallagher 11. Fictions of History, Evangelical Whiggism, and the Debate over Old Mortality in Scotland and Nova Scotia; Valerie Wallace Bibliography Index