Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Falling into Matter PDF full book. Access full book title Falling into Matter by Elizabeth R. Napier. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442664320 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442664320 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier
Author: 
Author: 
Author: 
Author: Egbert Coffin Smyth
Author: 
Author: University of Chicago
Author: 
Author: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Author: Sir Oliver Lodge