The Novel as Political History: Stendhal's 'Le rouge et le Noir' - Professor Belinda Jack

An Examination of the possibilitis and problems in using novels to inofrm our understanding of history: www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
Can a novel tell us something about political history that can’t be gleaned from other sources? Stendhal’s famous Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black) provides vivid insights into both the secret and overt machinations of the aristocracy and clergy of his day. How historically accurate can a novel be?
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[@CroMarduk]

hello from Croatia, great lecture, I would love to see a lecture on Dostoyevsky, I think that he was the greatest psychologist of all writers..

[@percyreiling]

Only like 9k views ? This is genuinely interesting and gives so much information on every aspect possible.

[@chrisweeks7896]

Awesome. Any person interested in my Stendhal letters to his sister Pauline, please ask.

[@safamaryana1619]

beutiful

[@vidcreatorlondon]

Sounds like a novel that had nothing to do with politics.