Headless History : : Nineteenth-Century French Historiography of the Revolution / / Linda Orr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Orr, Linda,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations

Linda Orr's Headless History investigates a variety of works by nineteenth-century French writers who attempted to address the major social and historical issues raised by the French Revolution. She discusses both prominent and neglected figures: Michelet, Tocqueville, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Lamartine, Thiers, Blanc, and Quinet. Orr points out that these writers worried in print about their own readership, their personal connection with the history they were writing about, and the predicaments of their time. She makes use of the personal elements in the narratives as a means of viewing nineteenth-century responses to issues that continue to concern—and confound—modern historians.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Constituting the Corpus -- II. The Laws of Reading: Narrative Teleology and Romantic Historiography -- III. The Problem of Legitimacy: The Popular Authority of Romantic Historiography -- IV. The Freedom and Terror of Unknowable History: A Reading of Tocqueville -- V. The Blind Spot of History: Writing or Logography -- VI. Conclusion: Inconclusive History -- Appendix. Publication Figures -- Bibliography -- Index