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Elizabeth R. Napier

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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Falling into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley. To get started finding Falling into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Falling into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley. To get started finding Falling into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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