The self and it
Subtitle: novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England
By: Julie Park.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804756969
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Self in literature; Mimesis in literature; Commercial products in literature; Capitalism and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : its, parts, wholes and the eighteenth-century self; title: For the pleasure of it : consuming novelty; title: Making the heart and hymen real : Clarissa; title: Appearing natural, becoming strange : the self as mimetic object; title: Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out; title: Puppet life : animation, voice and Charlotte Charke's narrative; title: Unheimlich maneuvers : enlightenment in the age of psychoanalysis.