Narrative, Catastrophe and Historicity in Eighteenth-Century French Literature

by Stacey and Jessica Stacey

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"