The self and it [[electronic resource] ] : novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England / / Julie Park
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Park Julie <1970->
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| Titolo: |
The self and it [[electronic resource] ] : novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England / / Julie Park
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.509353 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
| Self in literature | |
| Mimesis in literature | |
| Commercial products in literature | |
| Capitalism and literature - England - History - 18th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The self and it |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-7334-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792307303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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