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The self and it : novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England / Julie Park.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 tools for fashioning the modern self.
- Contents:
- Introduction : its, parts, wholes and the eighteenth-century self
- For the pleasure of it : consuming novelty
- Making the heart and hymen real : Clarissa
- Appearing natural, becoming strange : the self as mimetic object
- Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out
- Puppet life : animation, voice and Charlotte Charke's narrative
- Unheimlich maneuvers : enlightenment in the age of psychoanalysis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804773348
- 0804773343
- OCLC:
- 645099697
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