The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832 : Conspicuous Things /: Conspicuous Things. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nikolina Hatton.
• Authors: Hatton, Nikolina
• Contents: Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 1 Introduction: Objects in Prose, from Actants to Things Historicizing the Material Reevaluating Ways of Reading Objects Heeding Object Agency Literature as a Thing Conspicuous Things, 1789–1832 Notes Bibliography Chapter 2 A Pin, A Mirror, and a Pen: Everyday It-Narrators, Conspicuous Tools It-Narratives in the Eighteenth Century The History of a Pin (1798): Responsibility and the Didactic It-Narrator Defamiliarizing the Satirical It-Narrator in 'Adventures of a Mirror' (1791) 'The Adventures of a Pen' (1806) and (Hyper)Functioning Tools Notes Bibliography Chapter 3 'Very conspicuous on one of his fingers': Generative Things in Austen's Juvenilia, Sense and Sensibility and Emma Objects, Consumerism, and Austen's Literary Form Genre Conventions and Objects in Austen's Juvenilia The Love Token as Plot Device in Sense and Sensibility Pianofortes as Actants in Emma Notes Bibliography Chapter 4 Unwieldy Objects in De Quincey's Confessions (1821): Things that Undermine Subjectivity De Quincey's 'Involutes': Luggage, Books, and Other Conspicuous Objects Indifferent Things in the House in London Destroyed, Lost, and Appropriated Things in Oxford 'Turned out' of Dove Cottage (by Books) The Nightmare: Things that Come Alive Notes Bibliography Chapter 5 Performing Authorship in the Silver Fork Novel: Managing a Thing Filled with Objects Fashionable Novels, Lithographs, and a Crisis of Representation Describing the 'Real' in Catherine Gore's Pin Money (1831) Static Representations and Boredom in the Silver Fork Novel Distancing the Reader from Representations: Performing Authorship Notes Bibliography Chapter 6 Conclusion: All Those 'tables and chairs'—Productive Objects and Chaotic Things? Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (247 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Literary Criticism -- Books & Reading; Social Science -- General; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; History -- Social History; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literature: history & criticism; Cultural studies; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literature, Modern--18th century; Literature, Modern--19th century; Books--History; Ethnology--Europe; Great Britain--History; Civilization--History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030491116
• Related ISBNs: 9783030491109
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