Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the
human--dolls, automata, puppets--proliferated in eighteenth-century
England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period,
there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the
experience of life into a narrated object of psychological
plausibility. Park makes a bold intervention in histories of the
rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects abounding in
eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction
with the novel, itself a commodity fetish, as vital tools for
fashioning the modern self. As it constructs a history for the
psychology of objects, "The Self and It" revises a story that
others have viewed as originating later: in an age of
Enlightenment, things have the power to move, affect people's
lives, and most of all, enable a fictional genre of selfhood. The
book demonstrates just how much the modern psyche--and its
thrilling projections of "artificial life"--derive from the
formation of the early novel, and the reciprocal activity between
made things and invented identities that underlie it.
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