UID:
almafu_9959242071202883
Format:
1 online resource (233 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-83461-8
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1-61148-477-4
Series Statement:
Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
Content:
Through an examination of a representative body of non-fiction prose from the French Revolution debate and a variety of subgenres of the novel from the 1790-1814 period, this study traces the development of the discursive phenomenon it describes as "the struggle for history's authority" and the consequences thereof for the British novel. In particular, it provides a framework for understanding the novel's evolving relationship with history (as event, as historiography) in the period.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: The French Revolution Debate, the Discourses of History, and the British Novel, 1790-1814; Part I. READING HISTORY IN A REVOLUTIONARY AGE, 1789-1794; Chapter 1. 1688 IN THE 1790S: STRATEGIES FOR INTERPRETING THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION; Chapter 2. THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: THE DISCOURSES OF HISTORY; Part II. NOVEL AND HISTORY, 1793-1814; Chapter 3. ORDER UNDER SIEGE: THE DISCOURSES OF HISTORY IN THE ANTI-JACOBIN NOVEL; Chapter 4. THE CRUMBLING (E)STATE: THE PROBLEM OF HISTORY IN THE NOVEL OF REFORM
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Chapter 5. REPRESENTING HISTORY IN A POSTREVOLUTIONARY AGE: VARIETIES OFEARLY HISTORICAL FICTIONNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61148-476-6
Language:
English
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