Falling into Matter - Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley (Hardcover, New)

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 with technical and philosophical issues of the body, questioning its capacity for moral action, its relationship to individual freedom and dignity, and its role in the creation of art. Falling into Matter charts the course of the early novel as its authors engaged formally, stylistically, and thematically with the increasingly insistent role of the body in the new genre.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	March 2012
Authors:	Elizabeth R Napier
Dimensions:	236 x 160 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	304
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-4198-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	1-4426-4198-3
Barcode:	9781442641983

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