| FT-54583-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Ruth Mack | Literary Historicity: Structuring Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain | 6/1/2006 - 7/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Ruth | | Mack | | | | SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo State College | Buffalo | NY | 14222-1004 | USA | 2006 | British Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
My book project explores how eighteenth-century writers used literary form to conceive of history. Reading eighteenth- century texts in a variety of genres—what we now call fiction, the philosophy of history, historiography, and literary criticism—I argue that before the emergence of the philosophy of history as a formal discipline, the structures of literary texts offered writers the means to pose fundamental questions about how history is constituted as an aspect of consciousness. |