The spectacular past : popular history and the novel in nineteenth-century France / Maurice Samuels.
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)
9780801442490 (hardcover)
0801489652 (paperback)
9780801489655 (paperback)
Publication Details
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Showing the past
Spectacular histories
Napoleon takes the stage
Scott comes to France
Balzac's spectacular revolution
Stendhal's historical role
Conclusion.
Showing the past
Spectacular histories
Napoleon takes the stage
Scott comes to France
Balzac's spectacular revolution
Stendhal's historical role
Conclusion.