Eyes Across the Channel: French Revolutions, Party History and British Writing, 1830-1882

ISBN-13: 9781032130422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 228 str.

Clare a. Simmons

Opis

This book, first published in 2000, uses interpretations of the French Revolution as a model to ask what history meant to Victorian Britain, how events became enshrined with the authority of history, and how such cultural assumptions might help us to read nineteenth-century British literature.

Spis treści

1. Burkean Prophecy and the July Revolution  2. After Reform: Conservatism and Carlyle  3. 1848: The Threat to Property  4. Historical Repetition and A Tale of Two Cities  5. Alternative Worlds and the Franco-Prussian War

O autorze

Clare A. Simmons