Abstract
Abstract In this article we explore the British editorial project of the Universal History and its reception in the Lusophone world in the late eighteenth century. Focusing on the changes in the experience of history, we analyze how this project was designed to attend to the aspirations of an expanding readership and the rise of different temporal experiences existing in that world. We argued that these new expectations for a cosmopolitan view of the historical process couldn't emerge only from the boundaries of traditional narratives focused in rhetorical decorum and demands from the contemporary erudite scholarship in the academies. Lastly, we investigate how Antônio de Moraes Silva, a Luso-Brazilian man of letters, compiled and translated theHistory of Portugal from a French extended edition of theUniversal History . Our main intention was to show how this edition highlights the impossibility of establishing a uniform and harmonious representation of the historical process and events in a context of dissolution of the traditional functions of historical discourse.
Highlights
Today we see a relative consensus over the modernization of concepts which occurred between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries— in what concerns the modernizing process that became the basis of a Western culture founded on a historicist understanding of reality—much remains to be done about learning how that new experience of history came to be produced out of multiple ways of imparting meaning to events
In this article we explore the British editorial project of the Universal History and its reception in the Lusophone world in the late eighteenth century
Focusing on the changes in the experience of history, we analyze how this project was designed to attend to the aspirations of an expanding readership and the rise of different temporal experiences existing in that world. We argued that these new expectations for a cosmopolitan view of the historical process couldn’t emerge only from the boundaries of traditional narratives focused in rhetorical decorum and demands from the contemporary erudite scholarship in the academies
Summary
Today we see a relative consensus over the modernization of concepts which occurred between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries— in what concerns the modernizing process that became the basis of a Western culture founded on a historicist understanding of reality—much remains to be done about learning how that new experience of history came to be produced out of multiple ways of imparting meaning to events.
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