Title The secret life of things : animals, objects, and it-narratives in eighteenth-century England / edited by Mark Blackwell

Published Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (365 pages, 3 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Series The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture. Contents The stories things tell -- The spirit of things / Barbara M. Benedict -- The rape of the lock as still life / Jonathan Lamb -- Personal effects and sentimental fictions / Deidre Lynch -- Suffering things: lapdogs, slaves, and counter-sensibility / Markman Ellis -- Approaching it-narratives -- It-narrators and circulation: defining a subgenre / Liz Bellamy -- Britannia's rule and the it-narrator / Aileen Douglas -- Speaking objects: the circulation of stories in eighteenth-century prose fiction / Christopher Flint -- Hackwork: it-narratives and iteration / Mark Blackwell -- Occupying works: animated objects and literary property / Hilary Jane Englert -- Circulating anti-Semitism: Charles Johnstone's Chrysal / Ann Louise Kibbie -- Corkscrews and courtesans: sex and death in circulation novels / Bonnie Blackwell -- It-narratives: fictional point of view and constructing the middle class / Nicholas Hudson -- It-narratives in transition -- The moral ends of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century object narratives / Lynn Festa -- Discreet jewels: Victorian diamond narratives and the problem of sentimental value / John Plotz Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Material culture in literature. Material culture -- England -- History -- 18th century Consumption (Economics) in literature. Property in literature. Animals in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature. Animals in literature Consumption (Economics) in literature English fiction Human-animal relationships in literature Material culture Material culture in literature Property in literature England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Blackwell, Mark, 1966- Bucknell University Press. LC no. 2006019363 ISBN 9780838759400 0838759408

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