Narrativisation of Identity in the Novels of the 18th Century
Narrativisation of Identity in the Novels of the 18th Century

Summary/Abstract: „Since the 1980s, the claim that identity and narrative form have to be thought together has been repeated often enough not only among the literary scholars but also by the representatives of historical research and social scientists to make it look like a natural way of seeing the matter. Collective identities are thought to be defined by “grand narratives” which legitimize a social system and its functioning (cf. Lyotard 1979). Historians who consider themselves providing this kind of legitimizing stories are, then, often inclined to think of their stories being constructed in a form comparable to the fictional stories of a novelist (cf. e.g. Jenkins 1995; Carr 1991). In sociological or in cultural anthropological research, collecting autobiographical stories has become a”[…]

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