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Narrative Order, 1789-1819 : Life and Story in an Age of Revolution /

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 exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Gavin (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
British literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 18th century.
Literature, Modern.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 207 pages)
ISBN:9780230502246
DOI:10.1057/9780230502246