TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blackwell,Mark
TI  - Secert Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England
T2  - Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
SN  - 9780838759400
AV  - PR858.M38 -- S43 2007eb 
U1  - 823/.509355 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lewisburg
PB  - Bucknell University Press
KW  - English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Material culture in literature
KW  - Material culture -- England -- History -- 18th century
KW  - Consumption (Economics) in literature
KW  - Property in literature
KW  - Animals in literature
KW  - Human-animal relationships in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, -- Introduction: The It-Narrative and Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory -- I The Stories Things Tell -- The Spirit of Things -- The Rape of the Lock as Still Life -- Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions -- Suffering Things: Lapdogs, Slaves, and Counter-Sensibility -- II Approaching It-Narratives -- It-Narrators and Circulation: Defining a Subgenre -- Britannia's Rule and the It-Narrator -- Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction -- Hackwork: It-Narratives and Iteration -- Occupying Works: Animated Objects and Literary Property -- Circulating Anti-Semitism: Charles Johnstone's Chrysal -- Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels -- It-Narratives: Fictional Point of View and Constructing the Middle Class -- III It-Narratives in Transition -- The Moral Ends of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Object Narratives -- Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value -- Contributors -- Index
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