Narratives Of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History From Voltaire To Gibbon - 9780521619448

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 - and reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national issues.

• | By (Author): Karen (University of Wales College of Cardiff) O'Brien
• | Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2005
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780521619448