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Fabricating history : English writers on the French Revolution /
Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the Fren...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1988.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of history than their own ""Glorious Revolution."" To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a microcosm, in short. For these writers maintaining the distinction between ""history"" and ""fiction"" was less important than ma |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400859344 1400859344 9781306986830 1306986834 |