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- catalog abstract "This book shows how our idea of history was shaped by historians and their readers in eighteenth-century England. Philip Hicks reinterprets the historical writing of the early-modern era as a vibrant clash between ancient models for historical composition and a modernizing culture characterized by party politics, print, Christianity and antiquarian erudition, and traces the social, literary and political implications of neoclassical history for English culture at large. By paying unprecedented attention to historical genres and audiences, this study overturns the orthodox view of David Hume as simply a 'philosophical historian' and portrays him instead as a celebrated peer of Livy and Tacitus. By resuscitating neoclassical historiography, both Hume and the 1st Earl of Clarendon breathed life into their disparate political programs. By failing to come to grips with neoclassical ideals, Jonathan Swift and Lord Bolingbroke languished in the coveted role of Thucydidean historian of one's own times.".
- catalog contributor b10071907.
- catalog coverage "England Civilization 17th century.".
- catalog coverage "England Civilization 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "England Civilization Classical influences.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Historiography.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "1. The Weakness in English Historical Writing -- 2. Neoclassical History and the Modern World -- 3. Clarendon as the English Thucydides -- 4. Dr Brady and the History of England -- 5. The Death of Thucydidean History -- 6. General History in an Age of Party -- 7. David Hume as a Neoclassical Historian.".
- catalog description "By failing to come to grips with neoclassical ideals, Jonathan Swift and Lord Bolingbroke languished in the coveted role of Thucydidean historian of one's own times.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-272) and index.".
- catalog description "This book shows how our idea of history was shaped by historians and their readers in eighteenth-century England. Philip Hicks reinterprets the historical writing of the early-modern era as a vibrant clash between ancient models for historical composition and a modernizing culture characterized by party politics, print, Christianity and antiquarian erudition, and traces the social, literary and political implications of neoclassical history for English culture at large. By paying unprecedented attention to historical genres and audiences, this study overturns the orthodox view of David Hume as simply a 'philosophical historian' and portrays him instead as a celebrated peer of Livy and Tacitus. By resuscitating neoclassical historiography, both Hume and the 1st Earl of Clarendon breathed life into their disparate political programs.".
- catalog extent "viii, 289 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312160917 (US)".
- catalog identifier "0333659406 (UK)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in modern history (Macmillan Press)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in modern history".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Houndmills : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Civilization 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "England Civilization 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "England Civilization Classical influences.".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.06/007202 20".
- catalog subject "Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.".
- catalog subject "Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of.".
- catalog subject "Classicism England.".
- catalog subject "DA1 .H53 1996".
- catalog subject "Historiography Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Historiography Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Hume, David, 1711-1776.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Weakness in English Historical Writing -- 2. Neoclassical History and the Modern World -- 3. Clarendon as the English Thucydides -- 4. Dr Brady and the History of England -- 5. The Death of Thucydidean History -- 6. General History in an Age of Party -- 7. David Hume as a Neoclassical Historian.".
- catalog title "Neoclassical history and English culture : from Clarendon to Hume / Philip Hicks.".
- catalog type "text".