The Things Things Say /

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One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Property in literature.
Personal belongings in literature.
English literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Property, personification, and idols. Owning things
  • The crying of lost things
  • Making babies in the South Seas
  • The growth of idols
  • The rape of the lock as still life
  • Persons and fictions. Locke's wild fancies
  • Fictionality and the representation of persons
  • Authors and nonpersons. Me and my ink
  • Things as authors
  • Authors owning nothing.

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