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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.


