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Friedman Fabricating History
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5934-4
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English Writers on the French Revolution
E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5934-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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 paradigm of history than their own "Glorious Revolution." To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a microcosm, in short. For these writers maintaining the distinction between "history" and "fiction" was less important than making sense of epochal historical events in symbolic terms. Their works on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars occupy the boundary between history and fiction, and Fabricating History advances the current lively discussion of that boundary.
At the same time, this work explores questions about narrative strategies, as they are shaped by, or shape, events. Narratives incorporate the ideological and metaphysical preconceptions that the authors bring with them to their writing. "This is not to argue," Professor Friedman says, "that historical narratives are only about the mind manufacturing them or, more narrowly yet, about themselves as mere linguistic constructs. They illumine both the time and place they seek to re-create and, if by indirection, the time and place of the mind thinking them into being."
Originally published in 1988.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
A Note on Texts, pg. xi
Introduction, pg. 1
ONE Fabricating History, pg. 12
TWO. Through Forests of Eternal Death: Blake and Universal History, pg. 38
THREE. Lives of Napoleon: Scott and Hazlitt at Pens7 Points, pg. 67
FOUR. At the Conflux of Two Eternities: Carlyle's French Revolution, pg. 109
FIVE. Antihistory: Dickens’ ATale of Two Cities, pg. 145
SIX. Proving Nothing: Hardy’s The Dynasts, pg. 172
Conclusion (Mainly about Conclusions), pg. 199
Notes, pg. 209
Index, pg. 229
