British It-Narratives, 17501830, Volume 2
British It-Narratives, 17501830, Volume 2

Author: Mark Blackwell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 104025067X

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It-narratives are prose fictions that take as their central characters animals or inanimate objects. This four-volume reset collection includes numerous examples of narratives in different forms, including short stories, excerpts from novels, periodical fiction and serialized works.

Animal Satire
Animal Satire

Author: Robert McKay

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 3031248724

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Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today.

The Secret Life of Things
The Secret Life of Things

Author: Mark Blackwell

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780838756669

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This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology.

Homeless Dogs & Melancholy Apes
Homeless Dogs & Melancholy Apes

Author: Laura Brown

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780801448287

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Brown shows how the literary works of the 18th century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence.

Culturing the Child, 1690-1914
Culturing the Child, 1690-1914

Author: Mitzi Myers

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780810851825

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Utilizing new historicist, feminist, and cultural studies critiques, this collection of essays provides new perspectives on early children's literary texts and the work of children's literature scholar Mitzi Myers (1939-2001).