Narrative Order, 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403992116)

In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, British writers saw the narrative ordering of experience as either superficial, dangerous or impossible. Linking storytelling to other forms of social action, including the making of contracts and promises, Gavin Edwards argues that the experience of radical social upheaval produced a widespread scepticism about narrative as linguistic artefact, the transmission of narrative through storytelling and the understanding of individual or collective life as a temporal sequence with a beginning and an end.

Author: G. Edwards
ISBN-10: 1403992118
ISBN-13: 9781403992116
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2005
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.64w x 0.65d