Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750 – c.1840

Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750 – c.1840
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781108483001
ISBN-13 : 1108483003
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750 – c.1840 by : Mark Towsey

Presents a dramatic account of how readers across the English-speaking world used history to understand the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions.

Regional Romanticism

Regional Romanticism
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9783031613258
ISBN-13 : 3031613252
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Regional Romanticism by : Gerard Lee McKeever

Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England

Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9783031284618
ISBN-13 : 3031284615
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England by : Elise Garritzen

This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.

A culture of curiosity

A culture of curiosity
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : 9781526153043
ISBN-13 : 1526153041
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis A culture of curiosity by : Leonie Hannan

This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to ‘Enlightenment’ enquiry.

The Books that Made the European Enlightenment

The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9781350277670
ISBN-13 : 1350277673
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Books that Made the European Enlightenment by : Gary Kates

In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.

Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend

Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781350366237
ISBN-13 : 1350366234
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend by : Mark Lawrence

This book traces and analyses the relationship between Britain and Spain in its various forms since 1489. So often viewed as antagonistic rivals in history, the two countries are here compared and contrasted in order to shed light on their international connection and how this has evolved over time. Mark Lawrence reflects on the similarities of their composite monarchies, their roles as successive projectors of European global power, and the common fondness for peculiarly patriotic expressions of Christianity through the ages. At the same time, Lawrence is alert to recognising other ways in which Britain and Spain have seemed worlds apart in their respective corners of the European continent. He examines how British Protestants excoriated Spain in a 'Black Legend', while Catholic propagandists dismissed rising English power as the work of pirates and heretics during the early modern period. In a series of chronological chapters rich with a diverse range of sources, Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend considers the cultural exchanges which flourished amidst the growth of travel and new ideas in the 18th century, the surprising alliances of the 19th century and the shared international causes of the 20th. Whereas Spaniards feared or admired Britain for its successful political and fiscal system, the book convincingly argues, Britons romanticised Iberia for its supposed failures. It ultimately concludes that British campaigns in the 1700s and 1800s established a Romantic Spain in memoir culture which the 20th century gradually dissolved in the ideological cauldron of the 1930s and the advent of mass tourism.

Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings

Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9781009307482
ISBN-13 : 1009307487
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings by : Catharine Macaulay

The first modern scholarly edition of the published writings of historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay, who made a significant contribution to debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Influencing Wollstonecraft and proto-feminism, she wrote about education, the rights of women, and animal rights.

Making Boswell's Life of Johnson

Making Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Publisher : Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
Total Pages : 107
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ISBN-10 : 9781009271424
ISBN-13 : 1009271423
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Boswell's Life of Johnson by : Richard B. Sher

This Element documents the details and implications of Boswell's risky publication history. It argues that the success of the first edition of the Life of Samuel Johnson was the result not only of Boswell's biographical genius but also of collaboration with a devoted support network.

A Brief History of History

A Brief History of History
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780253066114
ISBN-13 : 0253066115
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis A Brief History of History by : Jeremy Black

"In A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. However, while the traditional storytelling process--what we think of as "history" in the proper sense--is useful, it is also misleading, not least because it leads to the repetition of bias and misinformation. Black suggests that the conventional idea of history and historians is constructed too narrowly, as it fails to engage with the broad nature of lived experience. By focusing on a singular idea or story within the history being explored, we fail to understand the interconnectivity of the everyday experience. A Brief History of History challenges accepted norms of the historical perspective and offers a view of human history that will surprise many and (perhaps) infuriate some. But above all, it is a history of historians written for this moment in time, a time when the traditional Eurocentric approach to history now appears wholly inappropriate"--

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9781000843385
ISBN-13 : 1000843386
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain by : Isabelle Baudino

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.