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Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution
Contributors:
By (Author) Barton R. Friedman
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Technology: general issues
Dewey:
820.9358
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
340g
Description
Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradi
