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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blackwell, Mark, 1966-

Series:

Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Material culture in literature.

Material culture--England--History--18th century.

Material culture.

Consumption (Economics) in literature.

Property in literature.

Animals in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

365 pages, 3 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: The It-Narrative and Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory / Mark Blackwell 9

Part I The Stories Things Tell

The Spirit of Things / Barbara M. Benedict 19

The Rape of the Lock as Still Life / Jonathan Lamb 43

Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions / Deidre Lynch 63

Suffering Things: Lapdogs, Slaves, and Counter-Sensibility / Markman Ellis 92

Part II Approaching It-Narratives

It-Narrators and Circulation: Defining a Subgenre / Liz Bellamy 117

Britannia's Rule and the It-Narrator / Aileen Douglas 147

Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction / Christopher Flint 162

Hackwork: It-Narratives and Iteration / Mark Blackwell 187

Occupying Works: Animated Objects and Literary Property / Hilary Jane Englert 218

Circulating Anti-Semitism: Charles Johnstone's Chrysal / Ann Louise Kibbie 242

Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels / Bonnie Blackwell 265

It-Narratives: Fictional Point of View and Constructing the Middle Class / Nicholas Hudson 292

Part III It-Narratives in Transition

The Moral Ends of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Object Narratives / Lynn Festa 309

Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value / John Plotz 329.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838756662

9780838756669

OCLC:

70131106