@article{742484,
      author = {Samuels, Maurice.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/742484},
      title = {The spectacular past : popular history and the novel in  nineteenth-century France /},
      publisher = {Cornell University Press,},
      abstract = {Samuels shows how new technologies allowed a cult of the  spectacle to pervade the national consciousness of  post-Revolutionary France, & argues that the realist  fiction of Balzac & Stendhal was a reaction to the  spectacular mode of historical representation.},
      recid = {742484},
      pages = {xi, 280 pages :},
      address = {Ithaca :},
      year = {2004},
}