The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France
Samuels shows how new technologies allowed a cult of the spectacle to pervade the national consciousness of post-Revolutionary France, & argues that the realist fiction of Balzac & Stendhal was a reaction to the spectacular mode of historical representation
| Summary: | Samuels shows how new technologies allowed a cult of the spectacle to pervade the national consciousness of post-Revolutionary France, & argues that the realist fiction of Balzac & Stendhal was a reaction to the spectacular mode of historical representation Introduction -- Showing the past -- Spectacular histories -- Napoleon takes the stage -- Scott comes to France -- Balzac's spectacular revolution -- Stendhal's historical role -- Conclusion |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 280 pages), illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 0-8014-4249-4 0-8014-8965-2 1-5017-2983-7 978-0-8014-4249-0 978-0-8014-8965-5 978-1-5017-2983-6 |
