Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Barton R. Friedman
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:250
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9780691606972
ClassificationsDewey:820.9358
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 14 July 2014
Publication Country United States

Description

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 paradi