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Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ruth Mack
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Description for Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Paperback. Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804773676
SKU
V9780804773676
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About Ruth Mack
Ruth Mack is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Reviews for Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain
"Ruth Mack's Literary Historicity is a must-read for those engaged in conversations about the boundaries of eighteenth-century history and literature. Tackling the knotty relations among representation, experience, and form, Mack deftly responds to and moves beyond poststructuralist and constructivist approaches. In her engaging readings of works by Fielding, Gibbon, Johnson, Lennox, Walpole, and others, she argues convincingly that eighteenth-century literary ... Read more