French Revolution Debate Amp Thepb

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

By Morgan Rooney

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Morgan Rooney
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2014
• EAN: 9781611485967
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-596-7
• Serie: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese