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Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Narratives of Enlightenment Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon - Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Author:Karen O'Brien 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 previou... more »s 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.« less