The Prose of Things : Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century /

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Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object-a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transfo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wall, Cynthia Sundberg (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Temas:
Description (Rhetoric) > History > 18th century.
English language > 18th century > Rhetoric.
English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
18th century, 1700s, transformation, image, literature, literary, critique, criticism, analysis, close reading, analytical, theory, theoretical, english major, college, university, higher ed, educational, textbook, woolf, setting, description, figurative language, visual, landscape, novel, victorian, culture, cultural, perception, science, nature, natural, consumer, philosophical, domestic, john bunyan, aphra behn, daniel defoe, ann radcliffe, sir walter scott.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 A History of Description, a Foundling
  • 2 Traveling Spaces
  • 3 Seeing Things
  • 4 Writing Things
  • 5 Implied Spaces
  • 6 Worlds of Goods
  • 7 Arranging Things
  • 8 The Foundling as Heir
  • Afterword: Humphry Repton
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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