RT Book
T1 The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France
A1 Samuels, Maurice 1968-
LA English
PP Ithaca
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2004
ED 1st ed.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1890880353
AB 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.
AB 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.
OP 297
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
CN 843/.709358
SN 9781501729836
K1 Novel-criticism
K1 French fiction--19th century--History and criticism
K1 Romance language literature-crit
K1 History in literature
K1 PQ 1-845 French lit-hist/crit