Headless history : nineteenth-century French historiography of the Revolution / Linda Orr.
1990
DC147.8 .O77 1990 (Mapit)
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Title
Headless history : nineteenth-century French historiography of the Revolution / Linda Orr.
Author
Orr, Linda, 1943-
ISBN
0801423791 (alk. paper)
9780801423796 (alk. paper)
9780801423796 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DC147.8 .O77 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification
944.04/072
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Constituting the corpus
The laws of reading: narrative teleology and romantic historiography
The problem of legitimacy: the popular authority of romantic historiography
The freedom and terror of unknowable history: a reading of Tocqueville
The blind spot of history: writing or logography
Conclusion: inconclusive history.
The laws of reading: narrative teleology and romantic historiography
The problem of legitimacy: the popular authority of romantic historiography
The freedom and terror of unknowable history: a reading of Tocqueville
The blind spot of history: writing or logography
Conclusion: inconclusive history.