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The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814 : the Struggle for History's Authority.

This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term "history" i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Bucknell University Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bucknell University Press 2012.
Colección:Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1688 in the 1790s: strategies for interpreting the glorious revolution
  • The presence of the past: the discourses of history
  • Order under siege: the discourses of history in the anti-Jacobin novel
  • The crumbling (e)state: the problem of history in the novel of reform
  • Representing history in a post-revolutionary age: varieties of early historical fiction.