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The self and it : novel objects in eighteenth-century England / Julie Park.
Van Pelt Library PR858.S427 P37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Park, Julie, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Self in literature.
- Mimesis in literature.
- Commercial products in literature.
- Capitalism and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Capitalism and literature.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Self & it
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction : its, parts, wholes, and the eighteenth-century self
- For the pleasure of it : consuming novelty
- "No sex in ethereals" : making the heart and hymen real in Clarissa
- Appearing natural, becoming strange : the self as mimetic object
- Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out
- Puppet life : voice, animation, and Charlotte Charke's Narrative
- Unheimlich maneuvers : enlightenment in the age of psychoanalysis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804756969
- 0804756961
- OCLC:
- 302414713
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