Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements and author's
- 1 Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history
- 2 Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history
- 3 European contexts in Hume's History of England
- 4 William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history
- 5 Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires
- 6 Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 7 David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements and author's
- 1 Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history
- 2 Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history
- 3 European contexts in Hume's History of England
- 4 William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history
- 5 Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires
- 6 Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 7 David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
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- Narratives of EnlightenmentCosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997