Writing from the archive: Henry Garnet’s powder-plot letters and archival communication |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Paul?WakeEmail author |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond St West, Manchester, M15 6LL, UK |
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| Abstract: | Through a reading of the archived letters of Henry Garnet (1555–1606), Superior of the Jesuit order in England and suspected
Gunpowder plotter, this article investigates the nature of the archive in relation to narrative theory. Figuring the archive
as one of the number of narrating voices accrued by the individual record, I argue that models of communication such as those
put forward by Roman Jakobson, Wayne C. Booth and Seymour Chatman afford useful insights into the ways in which power is inscribed
and reinscribed in the record through successive acts of reading and rewriting.
Paul Wake
is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Conrad’s Marlow (2007), editor, with Simon Malpas, of The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory (2006), and he has published articles on narrative theory and postmodernism. |
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| Keywords: | Communication Henry Garnet (1555– 1606) Gunpowder plot Narrative theory Narratology |
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