Fabricating History : : English Writers on the French Revolution / / Barton R. Friedman.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Texts
- Introduction
- ONE Fabricating History
- TWO. Through Forests of Eternal Death: Blake and Universal History
- THREE. Lives of Napoleon: Scott and Hazlitt at Pens7 Points
- FOUR. At the Conflux of Two Eternities: Carlyle's French Revolution
- FIVE. Antihistory: Dickens' ATale of Two Cities
- SIX. Proving Nothing: Hardy's The Dynasts
- Conclusion (Mainly about Conclusions)
- Notes
- Index