Foreword: A search for synthesis -- Introduction: Revolutions and restorations -- Metaphor: controlling the past -- Scott: the totality of history -- Transforming the neutral ground -- Waverer and fanatic -- Revolution and battle honor -- Men under trial: revolutionary justice -- The appeal of the old order: the threat of the new -- Women, children & the progressive ending -- New directions -- Conclusion: Scott's legacy: Flaubert and the Marxist revolutionary novel, 1848