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The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832 : Conspicuous Things / / by Nikolina Hatton



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Autore: Hatton Nikolina Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832 : Conspicuous Things / / by Nikolina Hatton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 828.50809
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Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 18th century
Literature, Modern - 19th century
Books - History
Ethnology - Great Britain
Culture
Great Britain - History
Civilization - History
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Nineteenth-Century Literature
History of the Book
British Culture
History of Britain and Ireland
Cultural History
Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Introduction: Objects in Prose, from Actants to Things -- Chapter 2: A Pin, A Mirror, and a Pen: Everyday It-Narrators, Conspicuous Tools -- Chapter 3: “Very conspicuous on one of his fingers”: Generative Things in Austen’s Juvenilia, Sense and Sensibility and Emma -- Chapter 4: Unwieldy Objects in De Quincey’s Confessions (1821): Things that Undermine Subjectivity -- Chapter 5: Performing Authorship in the Silver Fork Novel: Managing a Thing Filled with Objects -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: All Those “tables and chairs”—Productive Objects and Chaotic Things?
Sommario/riassunto: The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century. Examining texts as diverse as it-narratives, the juvenile writings and novels of Jane Austen, De Quincey’s autobiographical writings, and silver fork novels, Nikolina Hatton demonstrates how object agency is viewed in this period as constitutive—not just in regard to human subjectivity but also in aesthetic creation. Objects appear in these novels and short prose works as aids, intermediaries, adversaries, and obstructions, as well as both intimately connected to humans and strangely alien. Through close readings, the book traces how object agency, while sometimes perceived as a threat by authors and characters, also continues to be understood as a source of the delightfully unexpected—in everyday life as well as in narrative.
Titolo autorizzato: The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-49111-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910483362703321
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