Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Its, Parts, Wholes, and the Eighteenth-Century Self; Novel; Fetish; Doll; Automaton; Puppet; Last Things; Notes; Index
Summary
The Self and It makes a fresh and bold intervention in histories and theories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects proliferating in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel as vital to
