Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon by Karen O'Brien

Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon

Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

Karen O'Brien

268 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the eighteenth century--Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon, and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay--in t...

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