Narrative, Catastrophe and Historicity in Eighteenth-Century French Literature

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How do communities tell and retell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This book contends that such stories are central to how communities claim a position within history. It explores this question, so vital for our present moment, through narratives produced in eighteenth-century France: a tumultuous period when a new understanding of a properly 'modern' national history was being...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1800856008

ISBN13:9781800856004

Release Date:February 2022

Publisher:Voltaire Foundation

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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