A companion to Enlightenment historiography /
A companion to Enlightenment historiography /
edited by Sophie Bourgault and Robert Sparling.
- 1 online resource (ix, 509 pages)
- Brill's companions to European history ; 3 .
- Brill's Companions to European History 3. Brill's Companions to Early Modern and Modern History Online I, ISBN: 9789004389236. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1. Edward Gibbon: Historian in Space / 2. Politics and Culture in Hume’s History of England / 3. William Robertson: The Minister as Historian / 4. Montesquieu and Plutarch: Reflections on Historical Analysis in Broader Social Scientific Comparison / 5. Voltaire: Polemical Possibilities of History / 6. Herder in 1774: An Incomplete Philosophy of History / 7. Giambattista Vico’s New Science of the Common Nature of the Nations / 8. German Enlightenment Historiography and the Rise of Historicism / 9. Identity and Innovation: Historiography in the Scottish Enlightenment / 10. The Beginnings of Enlightenment Historiography in Britain / 11. Philosophes, Anticlericalism, Reactionaries and Progress in French Enlightenment Historiography / 12. The Divinity of Human Making and Doing in the 18th Century / 13. Philhellenism among the philosophes: Ancient Greece in French Enlightenment Historiography / 14. Roman Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain Beyond Gibbon: Ancient Norms of Empire for Moderns / Index. Sophie Bourgault and Robert Sparling -- Robert Mankin -- Simon Kow -- Jeffrey Smitten -- Rebecca Kingston -- Síofra Pierse -- Bertrand Binoche -- Donald Phillip Verene -- Ulrich Muhlack -- David Allan -- Noelle Gallagher -- François-Emmanuël Boucher -- Sandra Rudnick Luft -- Sophie Bourgault -- C. Akça Ataç --
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A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates’ stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. Contributors are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, Síofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, François-Emmanuël Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Akça Ataç, and Robert Sparling.
9789004251847
10.1163/9789004251847 DOI
Enlightenment.
HISTORY / Historiography
B802 / .C625 2013
907.2/04
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1. Edward Gibbon: Historian in Space / 2. Politics and Culture in Hume’s History of England / 3. William Robertson: The Minister as Historian / 4. Montesquieu and Plutarch: Reflections on Historical Analysis in Broader Social Scientific Comparison / 5. Voltaire: Polemical Possibilities of History / 6. Herder in 1774: An Incomplete Philosophy of History / 7. Giambattista Vico’s New Science of the Common Nature of the Nations / 8. German Enlightenment Historiography and the Rise of Historicism / 9. Identity and Innovation: Historiography in the Scottish Enlightenment / 10. The Beginnings of Enlightenment Historiography in Britain / 11. Philosophes, Anticlericalism, Reactionaries and Progress in French Enlightenment Historiography / 12. The Divinity of Human Making and Doing in the 18th Century / 13. Philhellenism among the philosophes: Ancient Greece in French Enlightenment Historiography / 14. Roman Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain Beyond Gibbon: Ancient Norms of Empire for Moderns / Index. Sophie Bourgault and Robert Sparling -- Robert Mankin -- Simon Kow -- Jeffrey Smitten -- Rebecca Kingston -- Síofra Pierse -- Bertrand Binoche -- Donald Phillip Verene -- Ulrich Muhlack -- David Allan -- Noelle Gallagher -- François-Emmanuël Boucher -- Sandra Rudnick Luft -- Sophie Bourgault -- C. Akça Ataç --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates’ stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. Contributors are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, Síofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, François-Emmanuël Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Akça Ataç, and Robert Sparling.
9789004251847
10.1163/9789004251847 DOI
Enlightenment.
HISTORY / Historiography
B802 / .C625 2013
907.2/04