Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Touching Fiction - Couverture rigide

Wetmore, A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137346337 ISBN 13 : 9781137346339

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature offers a new perspective on the interplay of sentimentalism and self-reflexivity in novels by Sterne, Smollett, Mackenzie, and Henry Brooke. Rather than evidence of eighteenth-century literature's capacity to anticipate (post)modernist metafiction, or an indicator of underlying tensions at the heart of sentimental fiction, self-reflexive practices in these texts, this book argues, can best be accounted for as strategies of 'corporeal defamiliarization.' These strategies denaturalize printed books as intimate things to be felt, whose powers reside not in their transportative potential as windows onto imagined worlds, but in their more tangible properties as physical objects that inspire physiological effects.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137346337
• ISBN 13: 9781137346339
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 207