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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793945403321

Autore

Hannoosh Michèle <1954->

Titolo

Jules Michelet : writing art and history in nineteenth-century France / / Michèle Hannoosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-271-08530-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

944.007202

Soggetti

Art and history - France - History - 19th century

Historiography - France - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Art and the writing of history -- The Gothic drama of the middle ages : Reims and Strasbourg Cathedrals -- The unfinished Renaissance : Van Eyck, Dürer -- Civil war in the century of woman : Fontainebleau, Goujon, Pilon -- Nation and the people : Géricault.

Sommario/riassunto

"Demonstrates the crucial role that art-writing played as a tool of historical analysis in the work of the Romantic historian Jules Michelet's work, decisively influencing his most important historical concepts, his idea of history, and his view of the practice of the historian"--