Gravity and graves. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gilbert, Bennett
• Is Part Of: Rethinking history. Volume 25:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 10
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Henry Fielding -- memoir -- autobiography -- mortality -- Rococo -- comic novel -- satire -- moral philosophy -- eighteenth century -- England; Historiography -- Periodicals; History -- Periodicals; 905
• DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2020.1718396
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-2529

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This short essay is an experiment in narrative history. It explores the convergence of narrative tense and commentary tense, the role of 'history' in Henry Fielding's novels, the nature of empathy by historians towards past actors through their memoirs, some ideas of moral philosophy, some ideas about what history is, and a couple of other matters. The essay is followed by a brief explanation of the experiment.