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Narrative, catastrophe and historicity in eighteenth-century French literature - Jessica Stacey

Narrative, catastrophe and historicity in eighteenth-century French literature

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Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2022
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-1-80085-600-4 (ISBN)
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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 elaborated. Who gets to belong to the modern era? And who or what is relegated to a gothic, barbarous or medieval past? Is an enlightened future assured, or is a return to a Dark Age inevitable? Following barbarians, bastards, usurpers, prophets and Revolutionary martyrs through stories of catastrophes real and imagined, the book traces how narrative temporalities become historicities: visions of the laws which govern the past, present and future. Ultimately it argues that the complex temporality of catastrophe offers a privileged insight into how a modern French historical consciousness was formed out of the multiple pasts and possible futures that coexisted alongside the age of Enlightenment. Further, examining the tension between a desire to place the imagined community definitively beyond catastrophic times, and a fascination with catastrophe in its revelatory or regenerative aspect, it offers an important historical perspective on the presence of this same tension in the stories of catastrophe that we tell in our own multiple, tumultuous present.

Jessica Stacey is a Career Development Fellow in French at The Queen’s College, Oxford and has a PhD from King’s College London. Her research interests include catastrophe and time, civilisation and barbarism, story and community; she has also published on Antillean volcanoes and queer readings of Rousseau.

A Note on Translation

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Authors of Catastrophe

Chapter 1. Bringing Catastrophe: barbare (br)others, in and around the Encyclopédie

Chapter 2. Suffering Catastrophe: legitimate and illegitimate lines in Baculard d’Arnaud’s medievalist works

Chapter 3. Prophesying Catastrophe, Predicting Utopia: the time travellers of Mercier’s prose tableaux

Chapter 4. Witnessing Catastrophe as Revelation: doing time with Latude and Sade, modern martyrs

Conclusion

Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2022:02
Zusatzinfo 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Liverpool
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-80085-600-8 / 1800856008
ISBN-13 978-1-80085-600-4 / 9781800856004
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