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The Self and it : Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England, Hardback Book

The Self and it : Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England Hardback

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Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human-dolls, automata, puppets-proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture.

During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life into a narrated object of psychological plausibility.

Park makes a bold intervention in histories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects abounding in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel, itself a commodity fetish, as vital tools for fashioning the modern self.

As it constructs a history for the psychology of objects, The Self and It revises a story that others have viewed as originating later: in an age of Enlightenment, things have the power to move, affect people's lives, and most of all, enable a fictional genre of selfhood.

The book demonstrates just how much the modern psyche-and its thrilling projections of "artificial life"-derive from the formation of the early novel, and the reciprocal activity between made things and invented identities that underlie it.

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