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The Spectacular Past - Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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The Spectacular Past - Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in
the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of
historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels
shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and
after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax
display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of
historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of
historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible
screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant
circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical
technologies to entice crowds of spectators. Such entertainments,
Samuels asserts, provided bourgeois audiences with an illusion of
mastery over the past, allowing them to picture their new role as
historical agents.Samuels demonstrates how the spectacular mode of
historical representation pervaded historiography, drama, and the
novel during the Romantic period. He then argues that the early
Realist fiction of Balzac and Stendhal emerged as a critique of the
spectacular historical imagination. By investigating how
postrevolutionary France envisioned the past, Samuels illuminates a
vital moment in the cultural history of modernity.
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