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1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index. |
| Summary |
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 French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of history than their own ""Glorious Revolution."" To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a microcosm, in short. For these writers maintaining the distinction between ""history"" and ""fiction"" was less important than ma. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Historiography.
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Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) |
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Historiography. |
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English literature -- French influences.
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English literature -- French influences. |
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Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, English. |
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Literature and history -- France.
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Literature and history. |
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France. |
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War in literature.
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War in literature. |
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Revolutions in literature.
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Revolutions in literature. |
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Literature and the wars.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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19th century |
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France -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Friedman, Barton R. Fabricating History : English Writers on the French Revolution. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400859344 (electronic book) |
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1400859344 (electronic book) |
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0691067295 (alkaline paper) |
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