The self and it : novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England /
Park, Julie,1970-
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : its, parts, wholes and the eighteenth-century self -- For the pleasure of it : consuming novelty -- Making the heart and hymen real : Clarissa -- Appearing natural, becoming strange : the self as mimetic object -- Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out -- Puppet life : animation, voice and Charlotte Charke's narrative -- Unheimlich maneuvers : enlightenment in the age of psychoanalysis.
English fiction
Self in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Commercial products in literature.
Capitalism and literature