Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution - download pdf or read online

By Katherine Astbury

ISBN-10: 190797542X

ISBN-13: 9781907975424

through the French Revolution, conventional literary varieties corresponding to the sentimental novel and the ethical story dominate literary construction. at the beginning look, it will possibly look that those texts are unaffected through the upheavals in France; in reality they show not just a stunning engagement with politics but in addition an internalised emotional reaction to the turbulence of the interval. during this leading edge and wide-ranging examine, Katherine Astbury makes use of trauma concept as a fashion of exploring the obvious contradiction among the proliferation of non-political literary texts and the occasions of the Revolution. in the course of the narratives of tested bestselling literary figures of the Ancien Regime (primarily Marmontel, Madame de Genlis and Florian), and the early works of first iteration Romantics Madame de Stael and Chateaubriand, she lines how the Revolution shapes their writing, offering an fascinating unique approach on cultural construction of the 1790s.Katherine Astbury is Senior Lecturer in French reviews on the college of Warwick.

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