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The Prose of Things : Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural sc. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (331 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-301) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226225029 022622502X 0226871584 9780226871585 1322080925 9781322080925 |