This book considers why narrative realism in literature has long been understood as a "full account" of "real life" and the individual self. Breaking with this tradition, Carnell demonstrates 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.
- ISBN10 1403983542
- ISBN13 9781403983541
- Publish Date 20 August 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format eBook
- Pages 236
- Language English