03451nam 2200673 450 991045214450332120200520144314.01-4426-6432-01-4426-9019-410.3138/9781442690196(CKB)2550000000099555(OCoLC)794619684(CaPaEBR)ebrary10560374(SSID)ssj0000717154(PQKBManifestationID)12222017(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000717154(PQKBWorkID)10725105(PQKB)11649064(CEL)439892(CaBNVSL)slc00228876(MiAaPQ)EBC3279966(MiAaPQ)EBC4672745(DE-B1597)479120(OCoLC)987921992(DE-B1597)9781442690196(Au-PeEL)EBL4672745(CaPaEBR)ebr11258399(OCoLC)958581531(EXLCZ)99255000000009955520160923h20122012 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrFalling into matter problems of embodiment in English fiction from Defoe to Shelley /Elizabeth R. NapierToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2012.©20121 online resource (276 p.) 1-4426-4198-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Robinson Crusoe: Discord -- 2 Gulliver's Travels: Shock -- 3 Clarissa: Grace -- 4 Tom Jones: Cohesion -- 5 A Simple Story: Dissipation -- 6 Frankenstein: Dissociation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexFalling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth R. Napier argues that despite an increasing emphasis on the need to present ideas in corporeal terms, early fiction writers continued to register spiritual and moral reservations about the centrality of the body to human and imaginative experience.Drawing on six works of early English fiction - Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Napier examines how authors grappled with technical and philosophical issues of the body, questioning its capacity for moral action, its relationship to individual freedom and dignity, and its role in the creation of art. Falling into Matter charts the course of the early novel as its authors engaged formally, stylistically, and thematically with the increasingly insistent role of the body in the new genre.English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismHuman body in literatureMind and body in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Human body in literature.Mind and body in literature.823/.5093561Napier Elizabeth R.1950-169009MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452144503321Falling into matter1980884UNINA