Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of
cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of
five of the most important narrative historians of the century -
Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the
historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context
of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and
America; and it investigates the nature and degree of their
intellectual investment in the idea of a common European
civilisation. Karen O'Brien combines the methodologies of literary
criticism and intellectual history to explore debates about
Enlightenments and the political uses of narrative. Where previous
studies have emphasised the growth of nationalism in
eighteenth-century literature, she reveals the development of
cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.
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