Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in "Robinson Crusoe" is an objecta 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 not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In "The Prose of Things, "Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of...
Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in "Robinson Crusoe" is an objecta large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out tha...
In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of the ancient commercial City of London. All that had been familiar, settled, known, was suddenly swept away, and Londoners faced an emptiness that was not only physical but also historical, social, financial, and conceptual. In this study Cynthia Wall reads the literature of Restoration and early-eighteenth-century London in the context of other texts such as sermons, royal proclamations, maps, and topographies, and shows how literature attempts to reinvest the city with "modern" meaning and create new spaces for new genres.
In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of the ancient commercial City of London. All that had been familiar, settled, known, was sudde...
This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.
Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.
Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social...
This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.
This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.
Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.
Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social...
This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.
Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in "Robinson Crusoe" is an objecta 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 not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In "The Prose of Things, "Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of...
Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in "Robinson Crusoe" is an objecta large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out tha...
