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French Revolution: A History

Disciplines:
history
literature/victorian literature

Summary

Thomas Carlyle's 1837 history of the French Revolution, notable for its dramatic present-tense narration and vivid depiction of revolutionary terror.

Core Contribution

Established the dramatic template for revolutionary show trials and mob justice that feeds into Nolan's Bane occupation of Gotham.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

Victorian historical writing

Allied Works

A Tale of Two Cities The Dark Knight Rises

Contemporaries & Peers

Democracy in America

Minds Influenced

A Tale of Two Cities The Dark Knight Rises

Intellectual Posterity

Revolutionary terror as literary subject

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