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Falling Into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to

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Book Title
Falling Into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction fr
Publication Date
2012-03-08
Pages
304
ISBN
9781442641983

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442641983
ISBN-13
9781442641983
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78511968

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Falling Into Matter : Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley
Subject
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Author
Elizabeth R. Napier
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
'Napier offers interesting readings of individual texts; specialists in the 18thcentury novel will surely wish to consult them... Recommended.'--A.W. Lee, Choice Magazine; vol 50:03:2012, 'Napier offers interesting readings of individual texts; specialists in the 18th century novel will surely wish to consult them... Recommended.', 'Napier offers interesting readings of individual texts; specialists in the 18thcentury novel will surely wish to consult them… Recommended.'
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Robinson Crusoe: Discord 2. Gulliver's Travels: Shock 3. Clarissa: Grace 4. Tom Jones: Cohesion 5. A Simple Story: Dissipation 6. Frankenstein: Dissociation Epilogue Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century., Falling into Matterexamines 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 Mattercharts 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., 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. 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., 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.

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