The essays in The Secret Life of Things approach it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, from various theoretical and historical vantage points. While sketching the cultural biography of a neglected literary form, these wide-ranging essays both enrich and complicate the history of prose fiction in the second half of the eighteenth century.
The essays in The Secret Life of Things approach it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, from various theoretical and historical vantage points. While sketching the cultural biography of a neglected literary form, these wide-ranging essays both enrich and complicate the history of prose fiction in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Mark Blackwell is a professor of English at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He is the editor of British It-Narratives, 1750-1830 and his work has appeared in ECTI, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Life, The Cambridge History of the English Novel, and The Blackwell Companion to the English Novel.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The It-Narrative and Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory Mark Blackwell Part I: 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 PartII:ApproachingIt-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 Part III: 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 Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The It-Narrative and Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory Mark Blackwell Part I: 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 PartII:ApproachingIt-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 Part III: 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 Contributors Index
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