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Article: Literary taste as counter-enlightenment in Hume's History of England.
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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- June 22, 2004
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David Hume's six-volume History of England (1754-62) links culture to the engines of history in what we would now recognize as a characteristically "liberal" configuration. As Hume puts it, the "arts and commerce [are] the necessary attendants of liberty and equality" as history progresses. (1) Such a three-part harmony of cultural, economic, and political advancement has been frequently postulated, not only in Hume's time but also by eminent contemporary historians, to explain Britain's distinctive achievements in the eighteenth century. In The Pleasures of the Imagination, John Brewer quotes one of Hume's characteristic statements of the view and affirms that "recent ...
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