Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiogaphy, and Art - Softcover

 
9780874515862: Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiogaphy, and Art

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Why is the anniversary of the French Revolution celebrated on July 14, the day the Bastille was stormed, rather than on August 26, the day the Declaration of the Rights of Man was signed? Why don't the French do as the Americans, who see their revolution epitomized by the signing of the Declaration of Independence? "There is surely something to be learned from contemplating the difference between these two ways of representing a revolution," writes James Heffernan. In this volume, he and 13 other distinguished scholars consider representations of the French Revolution in literature, historical narratives, and art as central to understanding it. Challenging the idea that history is a body of fact separable from fictions wrought by literature and the visual arts, they show that study of a major historical event inevitably leads to study of representation.

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JAMES A. W. HEFFERNAN is Professor of English at Dartmouth College and author of The Recreation of Landscape: A study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner (1984) and Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetry (1969).

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ISBN 10:  0874515653 ISBN 13:  9780874515657
Verlag: Dartmouth College Press, 1992
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