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Falling into Matter : Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley by Elizabeth R. Napier (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN-101442641983
ISBN-139781442641983
eBay Product ID (ePID)78511968
Product Key Features
Number of Pages277 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFalling Into Matter : Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley
Publication Year2012
SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorElizabeth R. Napier
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width7.6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & 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 FromCollege Graduate Student
Table Of ContentIntroduction 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
SynopsisFalling 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. 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., 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.
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