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Neoclassical History and English Culture: From Clarendon to Hume 1996th Edition
Author(s): P. Hicks (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 11 Oct. 1996
- Edition: 1996th
- Language: English
- Print length: 297 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333659406
- ISBN-13: 9780333659403
Book Description
This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and lesser-known historians of this era, dramatizing them as engaged in a struggle to preserve ancient models of historical composition in the face of a rapidly modernizing society characterized by party politics, print, Christianity, and antiquarian erudition.
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