The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century by Cynthia Sundberg Wall

The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

Cynthia Sundberg Wall

316 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging reflective medium-paced
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Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object--a 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 em...

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