The role which narrative discourse plays in the writing of history
is an area of increasing interest to historians and literary
theorists, resulting in some of the most stimulating and
controversial historiographical work in recent years. The rhetoric
of historical representation represents one of the first attempts
to carry out a sustained textual analysis of historiographical
practice. Ann Rigney focusses on three celebrated
nineteenth-century histories of the French Revolution, written by
Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Michelet and Louis Blanc. What
distinguishes her account is the sensitivity and sophistication
with which she handles the semiotic issues each text raises. She
shows how a greater understanding of the specific features of
historical narration can be achieved through a comparative analysis
of the different representations of a common event. This fresh new
perspective on a long-standing historiographical debate brings into
relief the ways in which the narrative medium can be used to invest
events with one significance rather than another.
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