Fabricating History : English Writers on the French Revolution /

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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...

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Main Author: Friedman, Barton R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War in literature.
Revolutions in literature.
Public opinion, British.
Literature and history.
Literature.
Historiography.
Historical fiction, English.
English literature > French influences.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Revolutions dans la litterature.
Guerre dans la litterature.
Litterature et histoire > France.
Guerres napoleoniennes, 1800-1815 > Historiographie.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Literature and the wars.
Literature and history > France.
Historical fiction, English > History and criticism.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Historiography.
France.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Literature and the revolution.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Foreign public opinion, British.
France > In literature.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Historiography.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""

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