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Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830

Visions of History

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Ben Dew

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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  2. Fiona Price

    1. University of Chichester, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Visions of History

    • Ben Dew, Fiona Price
    Pages 1-17

  3. Female Worthies and the Genres of Women’s History

    • Philip Hicks
    Pages 18-33

  4. Reading the Past

    • Amy Culley
    Pages 34-52

  5. Constructing the ‘English School’

    • Caroline Good
    Pages 53-72

  6. An Economic Turn?

    • Ben Dew
    Pages 73-91

  7. ‘Caledonian plagiary’

    • Dafydd Moore
    Pages 92-108

  8. Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time

    • Charlotte Roberts
    Pages 109-126

  9. Lyricist in Britain; Empiricist in France

    • San ja Perovic
    Pages 127-144

  10. Making History

    • Fiona Price
    Pages 145-161

  11. Don Quixote and the Sentimental Reader of History in the Works of William Godwin

    • Noelle Dückmann Gallagher
    Pages 162-181

  12. Fictions of History, Evangelical Whiggism and the Debate over Old Mortality in Scotland and Nova Scotia

    • Valerie Wallace
    Pages 182-199

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 200-228
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About this book

Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well as addressing more conventional varieties of historical writing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Ben Dew

  • University of Chichester, UK

    Fiona Price

About the editors

Amy Culley, University of Lincoln, UK Ben Dew, University of Portsmouth, UK Noelle Dückmann Gallagher, University of Manchester, UK Caroline Good, University of York, UK Philip Hicks, Saint Mary's College, USA Dafydd Moore, Plymouth University, UK Sanja Perovic, King's College London, UK Fiona Price, University of Chichester, UK Charlotte Roberts, University College London, UK Valerie Wallace, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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