The Things Things Say / / Jonathan Lamb.
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it me...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part One: Property, Personification, and Idols
- Chapter 1 Owning Things
- Chapter 2 The Crying of Lost Things
- Chapter 3 Making Babies in the South Seas
- Chapter 4 The Growth of Idols
- Chapter 5 The Rape of the Lock as Still Life
- Part two Persons and Fictions
- Chapter 6 Locke’s Wild Fancies
- Chapter 7 Fictionality and the Representation of Persons
- Part three Authors and Nonpersons
- Chapter 8 ‘Me and My Ink’
- Chapter 9 Things as Authors
- Chapter 10 Authors Owning Nothing
- Bibliography
- Index