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Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution - Princeton Legacy Library 3655 by Barton R. Friedman Details

Barton Friedman shows the ways in which nineteenth-century English literature tried to grasp the dynamics of history and the fashion system, however fragile, to get out of a mess. The…

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Barton Friedman shows the ways in which nineteenth-century English literature tried to grasp the dynamics of history and the fashion system, however fragile, to get out of a mess. The authors discussed by Blake, Scott, Hazlett, Carlisle, Dickens, and Hardy - found in the French Revolution a more convincing event as a model of history than their "glorious revolution". For them, the French Revolution seemed to be of global importance - a miniature, in short.

For those writers who maintained the distinction between "history" and "fiction", it was less important than historical understanding of historical events. Their work in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars occupies the boundary between history and imagination, and the history of the textile industry creates the current living debate of those boundaries.

At the same time, this work explores questions about narrative strategies, which are shaped by events or their formation. The narratives combine the preconceived ideological and metaphysical ideas that authors bring to their writings.

"This does not argue," says Professor Friedman, "that these historical accounts are only about the mind that makes them or, more narrowly, even about themselves as mere linguistic structures, they illuminate the time and place they seek to recreate." If mistakenly, the time and place of mind are thinking of their existence. "Originally published in 1988.

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