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Author:

Rooney, Morgan.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

viii, 223 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--French influences.
France--Literature and the revolution.--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature and the revolution.
English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-218) and index.

Contents:

1688 in the 1790s : strategies for interpreting the glorious revolution -- The presence of the past : the discourses of history -- Order under siege : the discourses of history in the anti-Jacobin novel -- The crumbling (e)state : the problem of history in the novel of reform -- Representing history in a post-revolutionary age : varieties of early historical fiction.

Series:

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

ISBN:

1611484774 (electronic)
9781611484779 (electronic)
1611484766 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611484762 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)798060250

LCCN:

2012029163

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)