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The Things Things Say

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Things Things Say

By Jonathan Lamb

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About the book

One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it mean when property declares independence of its owners and begins to move and speak? Jonathan Lamb addresses this and many other questions as he advances a new interpretation of these odd tales, from Defoe, Pope,...Show more

Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

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9780691171258

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2016

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The Things Things Say

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Paperback

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