Making History: Textuality and the Forms of Eighteenth Century Culture

Making History: Textuality and the Forms of Eighteenth Century Culture
ISBN-10
0838753841
ISBN-13
9780838753842
Series
Making History
Category
History
Pages
172
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Author
Greg Clingham

Description

"History" occupies a central, yet ambiguous position in both eighteenth-century studies and postmodernism. Making History (together with its companion volume, Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century) is a collection of essays that registers this postmodern challenge, but questions its version of eighteenth-century historiography by demonstrating that historiography to be complicit with and implicit in the postmodern project itself. By identifying a dialogical rather than monological relation between postmodern and Enlightenment discourses and texts, Making History offers a theoretically and historically nuanced account of eighteenth-century cultures, and makes a timely and original contribution to the study of the eighteenth century and its dialogue with postmodernism.

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