03317nam 2200697 a 450 991095732630332120251117083753.00-8387-5940-8(CKB)2670000000187228(EBL)3116347(SSID)ssj0000652518(PQKBManifestationID)12260435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652518(PQKBWorkID)10655494(PQKB)10604065(MiAaPQ)EBC3116347(Au-PeEL)EBL3116347(CaPaEBR)ebr10537924(OCoLC)608504502(BIP)13648550(EXLCZ)99267000000018722820060612d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe secret life of things animals, objects, and it-narratives in eighteenth-century England /edited by Mark Blackwell1st ed.Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University Press20071 online resource (365 p.)The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8387-5666-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The stories things tell -- pt. 2. Approaching it-narratives -- pt 3. It-narratives in transition.This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology.Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismMaterial culture in literatureMaterial cultureEnglandHistory18th centuryConsumption (Economics) in literatureProperty in literatureAnimals in literatureHuman-animal relationships in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Material culture in literature.Material cultureHistoryConsumption (Economics) in literature.Property in literature.Animals in literature.Human-animal relationships in literature.823/.509355Blackwell Mark1966-1861764MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957326303321The secret life of things4467963UNINA