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

by Cynthia Sundberg Wall

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022621527X

ISBN13:9780226215273

Release Date:October 2014

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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