LEADER 03410nam 2200709 450 001 9910807668303321 005 20230109052801.0 010 $a1-4426-6432-0 010 $a1-4426-9019-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442690196 035 $a(CKB)2550000000099555 035 $a(OCoLC)794619684 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10560374 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000717154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12222017 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000717154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10725105 035 $a(PQKB)11649064 035 $a(CEL)439892 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00228876 035 $a(DE-B1597)479120 035 $a(OCoLC)987921992 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442690196 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672745 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258399 035 $a(OCoLC)958581531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672745 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3279966 035 $a(OCoLC)1356681310 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105629 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000099555 100 $a20160923h20122012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFalling into matter $eproblems of embodiment in English fiction from Defoe to Shelley /$fElizabeth R. Napier 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 311 $a1-4426-4198-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRobinson Crusoe : discord -- Gulliver's travels : shock -- Clarissa : grace -- Tom Jones : Cohesion -- A simple story : dissipation -- Frankenstein : dissociation. 330 $a"Falling 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."--Jacket 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aMind and body in literature 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aMind and body in literature. 676 $a823/.5093561 700 $aNapier$b Elizabeth R.$f1950-$0169009 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807668303321 996 $aFalling into matter$93957115 997 $aUNINA