The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-narratives in Eighteenth-century EnglandMark Blackwell Bucknell University Press, 2007 - Всего страниц: 365 This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology. |
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The Rape of the Lock as Still Life | 43 |
Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions | 63 |
Lapdogs Slaves and CounterSensibility 32 | 92 |
Defining a Subgenre | 117 |
Britannias Rule and the ItNarrator | 147 |
The Circulation of Stories | 162 |
Animated Objects and Literary Property | 218 |
Charles Johnstones Chrysal | 242 |
Sex and Death | 265 |
Fictional Point of View and Constructing | 292 |
The Moral Ends of Eighteenth and NineteenthCentury | 309 |
Victorian Diamond Narratives and | 329 |
Contributors | 355 |
ItNarratives and Iteration | 187 |
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