A disimprisoned epic : form and vision in Carlyle's French Revolution /

In A Disimprisoned Epic, Mark Cumming elucidates the formal genesis of the French Revolution in Carlyle's literary criticism and reestablishes it as an epic experiment in literary form.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cumming, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1988.
Series:Anniversary Collection.
Subjects:
Carlyle, Thomas, > 1795-1881 > Knowledge > History.
Carlyle, Thomas, > 1795-1881. > French revolution.
Carlyle, Thomas, > 1795-1881 > Et l'Histoire.
Carlyle, Thomas, > 1795-1881 > French Revolution.
Carlyle, Thomas, > 1795-1881
French revolution (Carlyle, Thomas)
1789-1799
Epic literature, English > History and criticism.
History in literature.
Littérature épique anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Histoire de la littérature.
Histoire dans la littérature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
History.
Epic literature, English.
Historiography.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Historiography.
France > Histoire > 1789-1799 (Révolution) > Historiographie.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • One: Carlyle Reading
  • Two: The Critic as Copernicus
  • Three: Experiments in Genre
  • Four: History and Epic
  • Five: New and Antiquated Myths
  • Six: Satire, Elegy, and Farce-Tragedy
  • Seven: Emblems and Fragments
  • Eight: Allegory and Phantasmagory
  • Nine: The Liberation of Epic
  • Notes
  • Index

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