{"product_id":"story-and-history-narrative-authority-and-social-identity-in-the-eighteenth-century-french-and-english-novel-paperback-softback-9780631175124","title":"Story and History; Narrative Authority and Social Identity in the Eighteenth-Century French and English Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631175124","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStory and History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNarrative Authority and Social Identity in the Eighteenth-Century French and English Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Ray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631175124, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 May 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm, 0.539 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, \u003ci\u003eStory and History\u003c\/i\u003e rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority. Interpreting the evolving thematic pattern of fiction in both countries as a plot in its own right, William Ray argues that the novel's rise in the eighteenth century coincided with a growing conviction - which the genre both reflected and fostered - that selfhood, social identity, public authority, and ultimately even historical truth and cultural values, all hinge on narrative representation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the early novels of individualism, which emphasize the relating of personal experience as a means of altering social hierarchies and securing privileges for the exceptional individual, to the later metanovels, whose complex dialectical models of history both invite and exclude manipulation of the shared record, \u003ci\u003eStory and History\u003c\/i\u003e traces not only the relationship of individual story to collective history, but also finction's evolving grasp of its own cultural authority.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresented as an evolving story whose episodes are furnished by the successive works in treats, the sutdy seeks its model of the eighteenth century's understanding of narration and social reality within the stories of narrative manipulation contained in the most influential fiction of the period. Novels examined include: \u003ci\u003eLa Princesse de Cleves, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Poxana, La Vie de Martanne, Le paysan parvenu, Manon Lescout, Pamela, Clarissa, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise, Tristam Shandy, Jacques le fataliste,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLes Liaisons dangereuses.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Private Lives and Public Stories (La Princesse de Clèves) 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Personal Ordering and Providential Order (Robinson Crusoe) 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Negotiating Reality (Moll Flanders and Roxana) 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Individualism and Authority 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Seduction of the Self (La Vie de Marianne and Le paysan parvenu) 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 From Private Narration to Public Narrative (Pamela) 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Textualizing the Self (Clarissa) 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Necessary Other: the Dialogical Structure of the Self 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Self-ish Narration and the Authorial Self (Joseph Andrews) 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Emergence of Literary Authority (Tom Jones) 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Exemplification and the Authoring of Utopia (Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse) 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Ironizing History (Tristram Shandy) 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Great Scroll of History (Jacques le fataliste) 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Self-Emplotment and the Implication of the Reader (Les Liaisons dangereuses) 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 358\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316771746072,"sku":"9780631175124","price":38.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631175124.jpg?v=1781824362","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/story-and-history-narrative-authority-and-social-identity-in-the-eighteenth-century-french-and-english-novel-paperback-softback-9780631175124","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}