Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Approaching it-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
  • 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.