02783nam 22006734a 450 991082885420332120240508062630.00-8047-7334-310.1515/9780804773348(CKB)2670000000029274(EBL)544002(OCoLC)645099697(SSID)ssj0000427927(PQKBManifestationID)12137382(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427927(PQKBWorkID)10405869(PQKB)11544758(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127864(DE-B1597)564401(DE-B1597)9780804773348(Au-PeEL)EBL544002(CaPaEBR)ebr10394878(OCoLC)1198929493(MiAaPQ)EBC544002(EXLCZ)99267000000002927420090209d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe self and it novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England /Julie Park1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (307 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-5696-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : its, parts, wholes and the eighteenth-century self -- For the pleasure of it : consuming novelty -- Making the heart and hymen real : Clarissa -- Appearing natural, becoming strange : the self as mimetic object -- Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out -- Puppet life : animation, voice and Charlotte Charke's narrative -- Unheimlich maneuvers : enlightenment in the age of psychoanalysis.The Self and It makes a fresh and bold intervention in histories and theories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects proliferating in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel as vital tools for fashioning the modern self.English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismSelf in literatureMimesis in literatureCommercial products in literatureCapitalism and literatureEnglandHistory18th centuryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Self in literature.Mimesis in literature.Commercial products in literature.Capitalism and literatureHistory823/.509353Park Julie1970-940593MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828854203321The self and it4040458UNINA