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Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as
the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary
production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are
unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal not only
a surprising engagement with politics but also an internalised
emotional response to the turbulence of the period. In this
innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine Astbury uses trauma
theory as a way of exploring the apparent contradiction between the
proliferation of non-political literary texts and the events of the
Revolution. Through the narratives of established bestselling
literary figures of the Ancien Regime (primarily Marmontel, Madame
de Genlis and Florian), and the early works of first generation
Romantics Madame de Stael and Chateaubriand, she traces how the
Revolution shapes their writing, providing an intriguing new angle
on cultural production of the 1790s.Katherine Astbury is Senior
Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.
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