The secret life of things : animals, objects, and it-narratives in eighteenth-century England /
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| Imprint: | Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2007. |
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| Description: | 365 p., 3 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6435375 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The It-Narrative and Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory
- Part I. The Stories Things Tell
- The Spirit of Things
- The Rape of the Lock as Still Life
- Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions
- Suffering Things: Lapdogs, Slaves, and Counter-Sensibility
- Part II. Approaching It-Narratives
- It-Narrators and Circulation: Defining a Subgenre
- Britannia's Rule and the It-Narrator
- Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction
- Hackwork: It-Narratives and Iteration
- Occupying Works: Animated Objects and Literary Property
- Circulating Anti-Semitism: Charles Johnstone's Chrysal
- Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels
- It-Narratives: Fictional Point of View and Constructing the Middle Class
- Part III. It-Narratives in Transition
- The Moral Ends of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Object Narratives
- Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value
- Contributors
- Index
