The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things

by Nikolina Hatton

Book Overview

The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century. Examining texts as diverse as it-narratives, the juvenile writings and novels of Jane Austen, De Quincey's autobiographical writings, and silver fork novels, Nikolina Hatton demonstrates how object agency is viewed in this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030491137
• ISBN13: 9783030491130
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"