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Eyes Across the Channel: French Revolutions, Party History and British Writing, 1830-1882 (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-century Studies)
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Using interpretations of the French Revolution as a model, this text asks what history meant to Victorian Britain, how events became enshrined with the authority of history, and how such cultural assumptions might help one to read 19th-century British literature. By examining reactions to French revolution abroad, the book explores how the Victorians responded to developments in France in hsitorical terms, repeatedly comparing new events to the touchstone of the first French Revolution, yet always with the goal of finding ways to understand Britain's own past, present and future.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3224446 in Books
- Published on: 2000-08-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 227 pages
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"This combination of history and literature provokes some stimulating ideas....Suggested for scholars and graduate students."
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From the Back Cover
Using interpretations of the French Revolution as a model, Eyes Across the Channel asks 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.
Britain and France are now joined by a tunnel, yet the narrow stretch of sea that divides the two countries has for centuries represented both closeness and difference. Eyes Across the Channel argues that between the July Revolution of 1830 and the actual beginning of the construction of a Channel Tunnel in 1882, Britons more frequently interpreted France's role as their closest continental neighbour historically and politically than geographically.
