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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 (review)

Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 (review) Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 (review) Mark G. Spencer Hume Studies, Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 186-190 (Review) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0281 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/383260/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Hume Studies Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 186-190 MARK SALBER PHILLIPS. Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii + 369. ISBN 0-691-03179-7, cloth, $57.50; ISBN 0-691-00867-1, paper, $25.95. This gracefully written and ably-researched book explores historical writ- ing in Britain in the last half of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries. Readers of this journal, however, may be most inter- ested to know that it is also a book in which Hume figures prominently. One of Phillip's most involved subtexts aims to explain how it was that Hume, the celebrated historian of the eighteenth century, fell from grace in the nine- teenth century. As any scholar interested in historiography will know, this is not Phillips's first foray into the history of history writing. In the background of the present endeavor are his earlier published http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 (review)

Spencer, Mark G.
Hume Studies , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 26, 2011
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Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 (review) Mark G. Spencer Hume Studies, Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 186-190 (Review) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0281 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/383260/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Hume Studies Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 186-190 MARK SALBER PHILLIPS. Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii + 369. ISBN 0-691-03179-7, cloth, $57.50; ISBN 0-691-00867-1, paper, $25.95. This gracefully written and ably-researched book explores historical writ- ing in Britain in the last half of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries. Readers of this journal, however, may be most inter- ested to know that it is also a book in which Hume figures prominently. One of Phillip's most involved subtexts aims to explain how it was that Hume, the celebrated historian of the eighteenth century, fell from grace in the nine- teenth century. As any scholar interested in historiography will know, this is not Phillips's first foray into the history of history writing. In the background of the present endeavor are his earlier published

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