The spectacular past : popular history and the novel in nineteenth-century France / Maurice Samuels.
Samuels, Maurice.
2004
PQ653 .S23 2004 (Mapit)
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Title The spectacular past : popular history and the novel in nineteenth-century France / Maurice Samuels.
Author Samuels, Maurice.
ISBN 0801442494 (hardcover)
9780801442490 (hardcover)
0801489652 (paperback)
9780801489655 (paperback)
Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Language English
Description xi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number PQ653 .S23 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 843/.709358
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Showing the past
Spectacular histories
Napoleon takes the stage
Scott comes to France
Balzac's spectacular revolution
Stendhal's historical role
Conclusion.

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