The self and it : novel objects in eighteenth-century England /

The self and it : novel objects in eighteenth-century England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Park, Julie, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Commercial products in literature.
Capitalism and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : its, parts, wholes, and the eighteenth-century self
  • For the pleasure of it : consuming novelty
  • "No sex in ethereals" : making the heart and hymen real in Clarissa
  • Appearing natural, becoming strange : the self as mimetic object
  • Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out
  • Puppet life : voice, animation, and Charlotte Charke's Narrative
  • Unheimlich maneuvers : enlightenment in the age of psychoanalysis.