Skeptical Selves
Subtitle: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780804724661
Subjects: French fiction; abbe,; History and criticism; Prevost,; 1697-1763; Self in literature; Skepticism in literature
First sentence: Histoire d'une Grecque moderne, Adolphe, and Le Bavard: all three novels embody the idea that narrating the event and making it public modify the content of the self's experience.