18th-century culture
18th-century England
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Chrysal
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Richardson
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The Adventures of a Rupee
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Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Rowlandson
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- ISBN 9781684484706
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2023
- Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Enriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century, this collection focuses on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, and advances important work on consumer culture and the theory of things. The contributors bring new texts-and new ways of thinking about familiar ones-to our notice. Topics range from period debates about copyright to the complex relationships with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-Semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee. Essays situate it-narratives in a variety of contexts: changing attitudes toward occult powers, the development of still-life painting, the ethical challenges of pet ownership, the cult of Sterne and the appearance of genre fiction, the emergence of moral-didactic children’s literature, and a better-known tradition of Victorian thing-narratives. Stylistically and thematically consistent, the essays in this collection approach it-narratives from various theoretical and historical vantage points, sketching the cultural biography of a neglected literary form.
Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
MARK BLACKWELL is a professor of English at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He is the editor of British It-Narratives, 1750-1830 and his work has appeared in ECTI, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Life, The Cambridge History of the English Novel, and The Blackwell Companion to the English Novel.
