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- Author: Julie Park
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0804756961
- ISBN-13: 9780804756969
- Format: 16 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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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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- Author: Julie Park
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0804756961
- ISBN-13: 9780804756969
- Format: 16 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
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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