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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuels, Maurice
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Balzac, Honore de.
Scott, Walter.
Stendhal.
Roman.
Romans.
Geschiedschrijving.
Geschichtsbild
Historischer Roman
History in literature.
French fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Histoire dans la litterature.
Roman français > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Französisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501729836

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