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The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to the French Enlightenment

The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to the French Enlightenment

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Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5453

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0691655707
ISBN13: 9780691655703
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Feb 19 2019
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Challenging the view that a critical sense of history is missing from the Enlightenment, Suzanne Gearhart links the works of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, and Rosseau with the inquiry into the boundary between literature and history in contemporary critical discourse. She considers the theories of Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Althusser, Genette, White, de Man, and Derrida in order to develop a critical approach to fiction and history and to reveal that investigations into the fo undations of historical knowledge, and specifically into what distinguishes hsitory from fiction, were central to the Enlightenment.

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