| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index. |
| Contents |
Robinson Crusoe : discord -- Gulliver's travels : shock -- Clarissa : grace -- Tom Jones : Cohesion -- A simple story : dissipation -- Frankenstein : dissociation. |
| Summary |
"Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth R. Napier argues that despite an increasing emphasis on the need to present ideas in corporeal terms, early fiction writers continued to register spiritual and moral reservations about the centrality of the body to human and imaginative experience. Drawing on six works of early English fiction--Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein--Napier examines how authors grappled with technical and philosophical issues of the body, questioning its capacity for moral action, its relationship to individual freedom and dignity, and its role in the creation of art. Falling into Matter charts the course of the early novel as its authors engaged formally, stylistically, and thematically with the increasingly insistent role of the body in the new genre."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Mind and body in literature.
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Mind and body in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Napier, Elizabeth R., 1950- Falling into matter 9781442641983 (DLC) 2012376632 (OCoLC)753229925 |
| ISBN |
9781442664326 (electronic book) |
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1442664320 (electronic book) |
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9781442690196 (electronic book) |
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1442690194 (electronic book) |
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9781442641983 |
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1442641983 |
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