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ISBN: 022621527X

ISBN13: 9780226215273

The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

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Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object--a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved...

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