LEADER 02973nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910952335203321 005 20251117090432.0 010 $a1-936249-92-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039078 035 $a(OCoLC)629003815 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10480919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537114 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12186301 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537114 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553838 035 $a(PQKB)10765348 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3116157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3116157 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10480919 035 $a(BIP)13962961 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039078 100 $a20070110d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGleaning modernity $eearlier eighteenth-century literature and the modernizing process /$fEric Rothstein 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNewark $cUniversity of Delaware Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-87413-984-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 248-263) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Knowledge and the Paradigm of Man: The Nihilism of Gulliver's Travels -- Property and the Paradigm of Woman: Figura, Subjectivity, and Possession -- Consumers' Readings -- Knowledge, Virtue, and a Paragon of Woman: The Clarissa of Clarissa -- Property, Virtue, and a Paragon of Man: Pope's "Pope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aProviding original readings of such major texts as Gulliver's Travels and Clarissa, this study enlarges our sense of the Modernizing process. It also shows how a consumer-driven, Darwinian model of adaptive change, affecting literature and its readership, can help us understand the ways in which literature can have social efficacy. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xCriticism, Textual 606 $aEnglish literature$xExplication 606 $aAuthors and readers$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aReader-response criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xCriticism, Textual. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xExplication. 615 0$aAuthors and readers$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aReader-response criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a820.9/005 700 $aRothstein$b Eric$0193709 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910952335203321 996 $aGleaning modernity$94475583 997 $aUNINA