Why Read the Great 19th-Century Historians?.

Clive, John

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Publication Date: 1978

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Why Read the Great 19th-Century Historians?

Clive, John

American Scholar, V48 n1 p37-48 Win 1978-79

Clive comments on the literary power of Karl Marx (The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon), Alexis de Tocqueville (The Old Regime and the Revolution), Thomas Carlyle (French Revolution), and Jakob Burkhardt (The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy); and notes Macaulay's sensitivity to the "public mind" (History of England). (SJL)

Descriptors: European History, Historians, Historiography, Language Styles, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Social Values

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Language: English

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