Falling into Matter
Elizabeth R. Napier
€ 74.03
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Falling into Matter
Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442641983
SKU
V9781442641983
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-15
About Elizabeth R. Napier
Elizabeth R. Napier is a professor in the Department of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College.
Reviews for Falling into Matter
‘Napier offers interesting readings of individual texts; specialists in the 18th century novel will surely wish to consult them… Recommended.’
A.W. Lee
Choice Magazine; vol 50:03:2012
A.W. Lee
Choice Magazine; vol 50:03:2012