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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.