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Novel machines : technology and narrative form in Enlightenment Britain
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Books/Printed Material |
|---|---|
| Author | Drury, Joseph |
| Temporal Coverage | 2017 |
| Description | Table of Contents: Narratives and machines in enlightenment Britain -- Liberties and machines in Love in Excess -- Realism's ghosts : science and spectacle in Tom Jones -- The speed of Tristram Shandy -- The machine in the ghost : sounds and sensibility in The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Coda : the novel and the Industrial Revolution. |
| Abstract | Eighteenth-century fiction is full of mechanical devices and contrivances: Robinson Crusoe uses his gun and compass to master his island and its inhabitants; Tristram Shandy's conception is interrupted by a question about a clock and he has his nose damaged at birth by a man-midwife's forceps; Ann Radcliffe's gothic heroines play musical instruments to soothe their troubled minds. In Novel Machines, however, Joseph Drury argues that the most important machine in any eighteenth-century novel is the narrative itself. Like other kinds of machine, a narrative is an artificial construction composed of different parts that combine to produce a sequence of causally linked actions. Like other machines, a narrative is designed to produce predictable effects and can therefore be put to certain uses. Such affinities had been apparent to critics since Aristotle, but they began to assume a particular urgency in the eighteenth century as authors sought to organize their narratives according to the new ideas about nature, art, and the human subject that emerged out of the Scientific Revolution. |
| Page Count | 269 |
| ISBN | 0198792387 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Place | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America |
| Part of Series | Catalog |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | 18th Century Criticism, Interpretation, Etc English Fiction History and Criticism Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric Machinery in Literature Narration (rhetoric) Technology in Literature |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | English fiction--18th century--History and criticism |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Technology in literature |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Machinery in literature |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Narration (Rhetoric) |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | English fiction |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | 1700-1799 |
| Subject Domain (in LCC) | PR858.T37 D78 2017 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Book |
