The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-narratives in Eighteenth-century England - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1684484707 ISBN 13 : 9781684484706

Editeur : Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2023

Synopsis

Enriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century, this collection focuses on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, and advances important work on consumer culture and the theory of things. The contributors bring new texts--and new ways of thinking about familiar ones--to our notice. Topics range from period debates about copyright to the complex relationships with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-Semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee. Essays situate it-narratives in a variety of contexts: changing attitudes toward occult powers, the development of still-life painting, the ethical challenges of pet ownership, the cult of Sterne and the appearance of genre fiction, the emergence of moral-didactic children's literature, and a better-known tradition of Victorian thing-narratives. Stylistically and thematically consistent, the essays in this collection approach it-narratives from various theoretical and historical vantage points, sketching the cultural biography of a neglected literary form.

Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MARK BLACKWELL is a professor of English at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He is the editor of British It-Narratives, 1750-1830 and his work has appeared in ECTI, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Life, The Cambridge History of the English Novel, and The Blackwell Companion to the English Novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1684484707
• ISBN 13: 9781684484706
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Éditeur: Blackwell Mark
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