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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786479503321

Autore

Rooney Morgan

Titolo

The French revolution debate and the British novel, 1790-1814 [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for history's authority / / Morgan Rooney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Bucknell University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-83461-8

1-61148-477-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

Disciplina

813

Soggetti

English fiction - French influences

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and history

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: The French Revolution Debate, the Discourses of History, and the British Novel, 1790-1814; Part I. READING HISTORY IN A REVOLUTIONARY AGE, 1789-1794; Chapter 1. 1688 IN THE 1790S: STRATEGIES FOR INTERPRETING THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION; Chapter 2. THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: THE DISCOURSES OF HISTORY; Part II. NOVEL AND HISTORY, 1793-1814; Chapter 3. ORDER UNDER SIEGE: THE DISCOURSES OF HISTORY IN THE ANTI-JACOBIN NOVEL; Chapter 4. THE CRUMBLING (E)STATE: THE PROBLEM OF HISTORY IN THE NOVEL OF REFORM

Chapter 5. REPRESENTING HISTORY IN A POSTREVOLUTIONARY AGE: VARIETIES OFEARLY HISTORICAL FICTIONNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Through an examination of a representative body of non-fiction prose from the French Revolution debate and a variety of subgenres of the novel from the 1790-1814 period, this study traces the development of the discursive phenomenon it describes as "the struggle for history's



authority" and the consequences thereof for the British novel. In particular, it provides a framework for understanding the novel's evolving relationship with history (as event, as historiography) in the period.