Fabricating history : English writers on the French Revolution / Barton R. Friedman.
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781400859344
- 1400859344
- 9781306986830
- 1306986834
- 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
- Guerres napoléoniennes, 1800-1815 -- Historiographie
- Littérature et histoire -- France
- Guerre dans la littérature
- Révolutions dans la littérature
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature
- English literature -- French influences
- Historical fiction, English
- Historiography
- Literature
- Literature and history
- Public opinion, British
- Revolutions in literature
- War in literature
- France
- Revolution (France : 1789-1799)
- Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815)
- 1789-1899
- 820/.9/358 19
- PR129.F8 F75 1988
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.
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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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