Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.
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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 -- Index.
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"Narrative Order, 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution offers a new way of looking at the cultural transformations precipitated in Britain by the French revolution and its global repercussions. Drawing on twentieth-century ideas about the relationship between life and story, Gavin Edwards argues that the experience of social dislocation, both at home and overseas, led British writers to doubt that life could be represented as a narrative, an unbroken temporal sequence with a beginning and an ending."--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- French influences.
Literature and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Literature and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric)-- History-- 18th century.
Narration (Rhetoric)-- History-- 19th century.
Revolutions in literature.
Social change in literature.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise-- Influence française.
Littérature et société-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
Littérature et société-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
Narration-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
Narration-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
Révolutions dans la littérature.
Englisch
English literature-- French influences.
English literature.
Französische Revolution
Letterkunde.
Literatur
Literature and society.
Literatuurkritiek.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Revolutions in literature.
Social change in literature.
Verteltheorie.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
France, History, Revolution, 1789-1799, Literature and the revolution.
France, Histoire, 1789-1799 (Révolution), Littérature et Révolution, Romans, nouvelles, etc.