A Disimprisoned Epic Kjell Erik Rudestam Americans' increased fascination with the

Americans' increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past

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A Disimprisoned Epic Kjell Erik Rudestam Americans' increased fascination with theThomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution captured the Victorian imagination with vivid pictures of a society in conflict. A rich, brilliant, and arresting book, it defined a crucial epoch in modern European history for generations of British readers. Nevertheless, The French Revolution has lost not only its general readership but also its academic audience, for it is not history as history is commonly practiced, and it is not literature as