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Author Cumming, Mark

Title A disimprisoned epic : form and vision in Carlyle's French Revolution / Mark Cumming
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 188 pages)
Series Anniversary Collection
University of Pennsylvania Press anniversary collection.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- One: Carlyle Reading -- Two: The Critic as Copernicus -- Three: Experiments in Genre -- Four: History and Epic -- Five: New and Antiquated Myths -- Six: Satire, Elegy, and Farce-Tragedy -- Seven: Emblems and Fragments -- Eight: Allegory and Phantasmagory -- Nine: The Liberation of Epic -- Notes -- Index
Summary In A Disimprisoned Epic, Mark Cumming elucidates the formal genesis of the French Revolution in Carlyle's literary criticism and reestablishes it as an epic experiment in literary form
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-184) and index
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Subject Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 -- Knowledge -- History
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. French revolution.
SUBJECT Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 fast
French revolution (Carlyle, Thomas) fast
Subject Epic literature, English -- History and criticism
History in literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
History
Epic literature, English
Historiography
History in literature
SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography
Subject France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585126631
9780585126630
9781512802597
151280259X