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Eyes Across the Channel French Revolutions, Party History and British Writing, 1830–1882
By Clare A. Simmons
Copyright 2000
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. By examining reactions to French revolution in a broad selection of texts, this book explores how the... Read more
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Biography
Clare A. Simmons
