Title The Prose of Things : Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (331 pages) Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A History of Description, a Foundling; 2. Traveling Spaces; 3. Seeing Things; 4. Writing Things; 5. Implied Spaces; 6. Worlds of Goods; 7. Arranging Things; 8. The Foundling as Heir; Afterword: Humphry Repton; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object-a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural sc Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-301) and index Notes Print version record Subject English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century English language -- 18th century -- Rhetoric LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Description (Rhetoric) English language -- Rhetoric English prose literature Beschreibung Englisch Prosa Roman Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1700-talet. Prosa. Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226225029 022622502X 0226871584 9780226871585 1322080925 9781322080925

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