A Disimprisoned Epic: Form and Vision in Carlyle's French Revolution

Mark Cumming

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1989

A Disimprisoned Epic

Form and Vision in Carlyle's French Revolution

Mark Cumming

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512802597

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About this book

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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Cumming Mark :

Mark Cumming is affiliated with the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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"A well-written and thoughtful work, suggestive and very likely seminal to future study of Carlyle as historian and literary artist."--Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
One: Carlyle Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Two: The Critic as Copernicus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Three: Experiments in Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Four: History and Epic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Five: New and Antiquated Myths Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Six: Satire, Elegy, and Farce-Tragedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Seven: Emblems and Fragments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Eight: Allegory and Phantasmagory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Nine: The Liberation of Epic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 204
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: January 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781512802597