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Narrative Order, 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution
Gavin Edwards
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Description for Narrative Order, 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution
Hardcover. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403992116
SKU
V9781403992116
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About Gavin Edwards
GAVIN EDWARDS is a Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He is the author of George Crabbe's Poetry on Border Land (1990), and editor of George Crabbe: Selected Poems, (1991) and Watkin Tench: Letters from Revolutionary France (2001).
Reviews for Narrative Order, 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution
'This is a very scholarly volume.' Roger Sales - Literature and History 'Gavin Edwards has written a truly original book that should be read by scholars with an interest in narratology, in the relationships between language and politics, or in any of the authors Edwards discusses...This work demands intellectual exertion from the reader, but it amply rewards ... Read more