The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordworth, Keats, and Baudelaire
Geraldine Friedman
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Hardback. Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 537.
Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. The book begins with the discovery that, in these writers, issues of narration and figuration are already taken up in the political and historical questions raised by the two revolutions; conversely, historical-political positioning and representation are involved from the beginning in problems of narration and figuration.
This co-implication of aesthetics and history in each other has profound consequences: once ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804725446
SKU
V9780804725446
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About Geraldine Friedman
Geraldine Friedman is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University.
Reviews for The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordworth, Keats, and Baudelaire
“Friedman has written a powerful, rigorous, and intense work that combines in an original and advanced way two of the most vital (and hitherto usually antagonistic) directions of post-structuralist literary criticism: historicism and deconstruction. And she accomplishes this feat of strategic positioning without sacrificing her considerable tactical skills for local reading. Mediating between broad theoretical reflection and the closest kind ... Read more