The Things Things Say
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Things Things Say
By (Author) Jonathan Lamb
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th October 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.033
Commended for Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize 2013
Physical Properties
Paperback
312
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
Description
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it mean when property declares independence of its owners and beg
Reviews
Honorable Mention for the 2013 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative Honorable Mention for the 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University "[A]stonishing."--Choice
Author Bio
Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His books include The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century and Sterne's Fiction and the Double Principle.
