Fabricating history English writers on the French Revolution

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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ISBN: 9781400859344
ISBN: 1400859344
ISBN: 0691067295
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages)
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:april.16 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.