A disimprisoned epic : form and vision in Carlyle's French Revolution /
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.
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Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1988.
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Series: | University of Pennsylvania Press anniversary collection.
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Table of 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