The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France
Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced.
| Summary: | Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced. Cover -- THE SPECTACULAR PAST -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Showing the Past -- Two Spectacular Histories -- Three Napoleon Takes the Stage -- Four Scott Comes to France -- Five Balzac's Spectacular Revolution -- Six Stendhal's Historical Role -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781501729836 |
