The prose of things: transformations of description in the eighteenth century
The author analyses literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the 18th century novel, Robinson Crusoe, and other prose narratives became so textually visible.
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| Summary: | The author analyses literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the 18th century novel, Robinson Crusoe, and other prose narratives became so textually visible. |
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Autor: Wall, Cynthia
Jahr: 2006
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
A History of Description, a Foundling 7
Some Definitions of Description II
The Rhetorical History of Description 15
Traveling Spaces 41
Descriptions and Excavations: Stow to Strype 43
Traveled Spaces: Ogilby, Bünyan S3
Seeing Things 70
Subspace and Surfaces: Hooke, Boyle, Swift 71
Diaries and Descriptions: Pepys and Evelyn 82
Collections and Lists: The Philosophical Transactions, Swift, Pope 88
Writing Things 96
Emblems: The Pilgrim s Progress, Part II 97
Things (i): Defoe ro8
Things (2): The Castle of Otranto 114
Implied Spaces 12}
Spaces (1): Behn, Haywood, Aubin, Davys 125
Spaces (2): Pamela, Clarissa 37
Worlds of Goods 149
Vf odds of Goods 150
Theories of Description 154
Shopping and Advertising r¡8
Auctions and Catalogs 166
Arranging Things 177
Furniture and Arrangements 179
Domestic Tours 189
Domestication 197
The Foundling as Heir 201
The Gothic: Reeve and Radcliffe 203
Historical Novels: Scott 214
Historiography: Hume and Gibbon 220
Afterword: Humphry Repton 231
Notes 237
Bibliography 269
Index 303
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Titel: The prose of things
Autor: Wall, Cynthia
Jahr: 2006
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
A History of Description, a Foundling 7
Some Definitions of Description II
The Rhetorical History of Description 15
Traveling Spaces 41
Descriptions and Excavations: Stow to Strype 43
Traveled Spaces: Ogilby, Bünyan S3
Seeing Things 70
Subspace and Surfaces: Hooke, Boyle, Swift 71
Diaries and Descriptions: Pepys and Evelyn 82
Collections and Lists: The Philosophical Transactions, Swift, Pope 88
Writing Things 96
Emblems: The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II 97
Things (i): Defoe ro8
Things (2): The Castle of Otranto 114
Implied Spaces 12}
Spaces (1): Behn, Haywood, Aubin, Davys 125
Spaces (2): Pamela, Clarissa '37
Worlds of Goods 149
Vf odds of Goods 150
Theories of Description 154
Shopping and Advertising r¡8
Auctions and Catalogs 166
Arranging Things 177
Furniture and Arrangements 179
Domestic Tours 189
Domestication 197
The Foundling as Heir 201
The Gothic: Reeve and Radcliffe 203
Historical Novels: Scott 214
Historiography: Hume and Gibbon 220
Afterword: Humphry Repton 231
Notes 237
Bibliography 269
Index 303 |
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