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The Spectacular Past : Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France /

Samuels shows how new technologies allowed a cult of the spectacle to pervade the national consciousness of post-Revolutionary France, & argues that the realist fiction of Balzac & Stendhal was a reaction to the spectacular mode of historical representation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Samuels, Maurice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Showing the past
  • Spectacular histories
  • Napoleon takes the stage
  • Scott comes to France
  • Balzac's spectacular revolution
  • Stendhal's historical role
  • Conclusion.