Fabricating history : English writers on the French Revolution

Fabricating history : English writers on the French Revolution /

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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Main Author: Friedman, Barton R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988
Subjects:
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Historiography.
English literature > French influences.
Historical fiction, English > History and criticism.
Literature and history > France.
War in literature.
Revolutions in literature.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Literature and the wars.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Historiography.
France > In literature.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Foreign public opinion, British.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Literature and the revolution.
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