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The Things Things Say
Jonathan Lamb
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Description for The Things Things Say
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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, Swift, Gay, and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas journals. Lamb ... Read more
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, Swift, Gay, and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas journals. Lamb ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691171258
SKU
V9780691171258
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99-15
About Jonathan Lamb
Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His books include The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century and Sterne's Fiction and the Double Principle.
Reviews for The Things Things Say
Honorable Mention for the 2013 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative Honorable Mention for the 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University [A]stonishing.
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