Author: Orr, Linda
Title: Headless History: Nineteenth-Century French Historiography of the Revolution
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiii,185 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Constituting the Corpus; The Laws of Reading: Narrative Teleology & Romantic Historiography; The Problem of Legitimacy: The Popular Authority of Romantic Historiography; The Freedom & Terror of Unknowable History: A Reading of Tocqueville; The Blind Spot of History: Writing or Logography; Conclusion: Inconclusive History; Appendix: Publication Figures.

Keywords: French Revolution, France, Romantic, 19th-Century, Historiography, Literature, History, Romanticism, Literary Criticism