
Narrative Order, 1789-1819
Life and Story in an Age of Revolution
G. Edwards(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 22. November 2005
Book
Hardback
VIII, 207 pages
978-1-4039-9211-6 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 that effort.' Eric Birdsall, British Association for Romantic Studies
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Edition
2006 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VIII, 207 p.
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-9211-6 (9781403992116)
DOI
10.1057/9780230502246
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Person
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).
Content
Acknowledgements PART ONE Narrative Order Samuel Johnson and the Order of Time PART TWO Edmund Burke: Middles versus Beginnings and End Watkin Tench and the Cold Track of Narrative William Godwin: Stories and Families Wordsworth's Moving Accidents Crabbe's Parables Relations: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley The Still Unravished Bride of Lammermoor Notes Bibliography Index