Author: R. Carnell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349531714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book considers why narrative realism in literature is seen as a 'full account' of 'real life' and the individual self. Unconventionally, Carnell shows that the formal conventions of narrative realism emerged in the seventeenth century in response to an explosion of partisan writings that put into play competing versions of political selfhood.