TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orr,Linda
TI  - Headless History: Nineteenth-Century French Historiography of the Revolution 
SN  - 9781501737398
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - West European History
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. Constituting the Corpus --; II. The Laws of Reading: Narrative Teleology and Romantic Historiography --; III. The Problem of Legitimacy: The Popular Authority of Romantic Historiography --; IV. The Freedom and Terror of Unknowable History: A Reading of Tocqueville --; V. The Blind Spot of History: Writing or Logography --; VI. Conclusion: Inconclusive History --; Appendix. Publication Figures --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Linda Orr's Headless History investigates a variety of works by nineteenth-century French writers who attempted to address the major social and historical issues raised by the French Revolution. She discusses both prominent and neglected figures: Michelet, Tocqueville, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Lamartine, Thiers, Blanc, and Quinet. Orr points out that these writers worried in print about their own readership, their personal connection with the history they were writing about, and the predicaments of their time. She makes use of the personal elements in the narratives as a means of viewing nineteenth-century responses to issues that continue to concern—and confound—modern historians
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501737398
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501737398
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501737398/original
ER  -