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Through an examination of a representative body of nonfiction 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.
List of 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
1. 1688 in the 1790s: Strategies for Interpreting the Glorious
Revolution
2. The Presence of the Past: The Discourses of History
Part II: Novel and History, 1793-1814
3. Order under Siege: The Discourses of History in the Anti-Jacobin
Novel
4. The Crumbling (E)state: The Problem of History in the Novel of
Reform
5. Representing History in a Post-Revolutionary Age: Varieties of Early
Historical Fiction
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Morgan Rooney is a sessional instructor for the Departments of English at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He received his doctorate from the University of Ottawa in 2009.
Summary
Through an examination of a representative body of nonfiction 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.
