Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Rosemary Sweet

Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics.
Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852853093
• ISBN13: 9781852853099
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"