The things things say
By: Jonathan Lamb
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780691148069
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Personal belongings in literature; Property in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Part 1: Property, personification, and idols: Owning things; the crying of lost things; making babies in the South Seas; the growth of idols; The rape of the lock as still life; title: Part 2: Persons and fictions: Locke's wild fancies; fictionality and the representation of persons; title: Part 3: Authors and nonpersons: me and my ink; things as authors; authors owning nothing.