Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

• fiction
• Great Britain
• Narrative
• novel
• poem
• poetry
• Scotland
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Ben Dew

• University of Chichester, UK

  Fiona Price

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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