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Tables of Contents for Society and Sentiment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
List of Abbreviations
xix
Introduction: ``The More Permanent and Peaceful Scenes of Social Life''
3
28
THE ENGLISH PARNASSUS
31
48
David Hume and the Vocabularies of British Historiography
33
27
Hume and the Politics and Poetics of Historical Distance
60
19
NARRATIVES AND READERS
79
50
Tensions and Accommodations: Varieties of Structure in Eighteenth-Century Narrative
81
22
History, the Novel, and the Sentimental Reader
103
26
LIVES, MANNERS, AND ``THE HISTORY OF MAN''
129
62
Biography and the History of Private Life
131
16
Manners and the Many Histories of Everyday Life: Custom, Commerce, Women, and Literature
147
24
Conjectural History: A History of Manners and of Mind
171
20
CONTINUITIES
191
66
James Mackintosh: The Historian as Reader
193
27
Burke, Mackintosh, and the Idea of Tradition
220
37
LITERARY HISTORY, MEMOIR, AND THE IDEA OF COMMEMORATION IN EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
257
85
``The Comedy of Middle Life'': Francis Jeffrey and Literary History
259
36
``The Living Character of Bygone Ages'': Memoir and the Historicization of Everyday Life
295
27
William Godwin and the Idea of Commemoration
322
20
Conclusion. Historical Distance and the Reception of Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing
342
9
Bibliography
351
16
Index
367