Julie Park, "The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England"
English | ISBN: 0804756961 | 2009 | MOBI | 275 pages | 8.6 MB
Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life into a narrated object of psychological plausibility.