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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wall, Cynthia Sundberg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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