Download or read book Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel written by R. Carnell and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers why narrative realism in literature is seen as a 'full account' of 'real life' and the individual self. Unconventionally, Carnell shows 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.