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

By Gavin Edwards

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403992118
• ISBN13: 9781403992116
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.8"