The Spectacular Past : : Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France / / Maurice Samuels.
Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the pas...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 14 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Showing the Past
- Two. Spectacular Histories
- Three. Napoleon Takes the Stage
- Four. Scott Comes to France
- Five. Balzac's Spectacular Revolution
- Six. Stendhal's Historical Role
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index