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

Edwards, G.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2006-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349543304

DOI: 10.1057/9780230502246

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 207