Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Brossura

Mack, Ruth

 
9780804773676: Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of literature, historiography, and recent philosophical writing on history, offering a new view of eighteenth-century philosophies of history in Britain. Such philosophies, she argues, could be important literarily without being focused, as has been assumed, on questions of fact and fiction. Eighteenth-century writers—like many twentieth-century philosophers—often used literary form not in order to exhibit a work's fictional status but in order to consider what the relation between the past and present might be. Literary Historicity portrays a British Enlightenment that both embraces the possibility of historical experience and interrogates the terms for such experience, one deeply engaged with historical consciousness not as an inevitability of the modern world, but as something to be understood within it.

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Ruth Mack is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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9780804759113: Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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ISBN 10:  0804759111 ISBN 13:  9780804759113
Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2008
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