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