Eyes Across the Channel French Revolutions, Party History and British Writing, 18301882

This book, first published in 2000, uses interpretations of the French Revolution as a model to ask what history meant to Victorian Britain, how events became enshrined with the authority of history, and how such cultural assumptions might help us to read nineteenth-century British literature. By examining reactions to French revolution in a broad selection of texts, this book explores how the Victorians responded to developments in France in historical terms, repeatedly comparing new events to the touchstone of the first French Revolution, yet always with the goal of finding ways to understand Britain's own past, present and future.

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Clare A. Simmons

Summary

This book, first published in 2000, uses interpretations of the French Revolution as a model to ask what history meant to Victorian Britain, how events became enshrined with the authority of history, and how such cultural assumptions might help us to read nineteenth-century British literature.

Product details

• Authors: Clare A. Simmons, Simmons Clare A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.08.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781032130446
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213044-6
• Pages: 228
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
• Subjects: Vanity Fair, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Napoleon III, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Charles Darnay, General & world history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, General and world history, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Demonstrations & protest movements, Revolutionary groups and movements, French Revolution, George III, Becky Sharp, Violated, channel tunnel, Sartor Resartus, political ideology analysis, cultural memory Britain, Whig history, Comte de Mirabeau, Madame Defarge, revolution narratives, comparative historical studies, Victorian historiography, British responses to French revolutions, Vanden Bossche, Lettres De Cachet, Roman Catholic Emancipation, Macaulay’s History, Parliamentary Reform Act, Historical Repetition, Paris Train, Carlyle’s History, Due De Bourbon, Tory History, Burke’s Reading, Eraser’s Magazine, De Gamond