Catastrophe and temporality in late eighteenth-century France : sombre spaces, sombre writing

In this thesis, I ask whether catastrophe can be said to have a particular temporality, and how a society’s sense of its own temporal situation can be developed through representations of catastrophe as the beginning or end-point of a past, present, or even a future epoch. My argument rests on the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stacey, Jessica Anne
Other Authors: Perovic, Sanja ; Gaunt, Simon Benjamin
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2017
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.762317