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Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Oct 15, 1981
Authors:
J. W. Burrow

Abstract

Nineteenth-century historians occasionally protested against one of the constraints of their art: its sequential arrangement. In history events might be simultaneous which, in narrative, become extended. Carlyle pointed this out, echoed, as so often, by Froude. It is a caution worth bearing in mind ...

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