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

By Gavin Edwards

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1403992118, 9781403992116, 9780230502246
LCC
PR468.N29 E34 2005
Open Library ID
OL22714689M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
945 kB (967277 bytes)
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
224\216
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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