Society and Sentiment

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

Natural language processing · Political science · Sentiment analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Emotions Research · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Scottish History and National Identity · Great britain · Historiography · Social life and customs

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• Elusive Facts and Persuasive Fictions

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• The Ends of Empire

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• Mimic toil

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  Open Access•Matthew Watson•Review of International Studies•2013

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• Escepticismo y facciones políticas en los ensayos de David Hume

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• Unionist Nationalism’ in the Eighteenth Century

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• The Roman Matron in Britain

  Philip Hicks•The Journal of Modern History•2005

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• Catharine Macaulay's Civil War

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• Joseph Priestley and the Graphic Invention of Modern Time

  Daniel Rosenberg•Studies in eighteenth century…•2007

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• A Victorian Invention? Thomas Thornycroft's ‘Boadicea Group’ and the Idea of Historical Culture in Britain

  Open Access•Martha Vandrei•The Historical Journal•2014

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• Particular Thanks and Obligations’

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• Struggling against a Vulgar Prejudice

  Open Access•Holger Hoock•Journal of British Studies•2010

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• Enlightened histories

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• Between Virtue and Knavery

  Paul Sagar•The Journal of Politics•2021

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• Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge, and Humanity

  Christopher J Berry•History of Political Economy•2006

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• The Historicity of Johnson's Lexicographer

  Ruth Mack, Ruth P Mack•Representations•2001

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• "Cuando América entró en la "disputa del Nuevo Mundo

  Open Access•Silvia Sebastiani•Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos•2020

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• Isaac D'Israeli and Literary History

  April London•Poetics Today•2005

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• Context in Context

  Peter Burke•Common Knowledge•2002

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• Metahistory

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• Sensibility

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• "The Transformation of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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• Sources of the Self

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