| Balzac and the French Revolution Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; History; Literature; European History; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; Political History; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; First published in 1983. Balzac's novels are one of the largest and most important sources for the history of post-revolutionary France, but they have scarcely been tapped as they should be. Approaching the subject from the perspective of a literary, the author shows in detail how specific historical circumstances and movement are reflected in t Ronnie Butler |