Story and History by William Ray PAPERBACK 9780631175124

Story and History\nby William Ray\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: William Ray\nTitle: Story and History\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 1990\nISBN-13: 9780631175124\nISBN-10: 0631175121\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nA comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, Story and History rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority. Interpreting the evolving thematic pattern of fiction in both countries as a plot in its own right, William Ray argues that the novel''s rise in the eighteenth century coincided w.