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Honorable Mention for the 2013 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative Honorable Mention for the 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University "[A]stonishing."--Choice

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Acknowledgments ix Prologue xi Part One: Property, Personification, and Idols 1 Chapter 1: Owning Things 3 Chapter 2: The Crying of Lost Things 35 Chapter 3: Making Babies in the South Seas 55 Chapter 4: The Growth of Idols 78 Chapter 5: The Rape of the Lock as Still Life 98 Part Two: Persons and Fictions 127 Chapter 6: Locke's Wild Fancies 129 Chapter 7: Fictionality and the Representation of Persons 151 Part Three: Authors and Nonpersons 173 Chapter 8: 'Me and My Ink' 175 Chapter 9: Things as Authors 201 Chapter 10: Authors Owning Nothing 230 Bibliography 253 Index 267

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    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780691171258, 978-0691171258
    ISBN10: 0691171254
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    Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Trade Review
    Honorable Mention for the 2013 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative Honorable Mention for the 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University "[A]stonishing."--Choice

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments ix Prologue xi Part One: Property, Personification, and Idols 1 Chapter 1: Owning Things 3 Chapter 2: The Crying of Lost Things 35 Chapter 3: Making Babies in the South Seas 55 Chapter 4: The Growth of Idols 78 Chapter 5: The Rape of the Lock as Still Life 98 Part Two: Persons and Fictions 127 Chapter 6: Locke's Wild Fancies 129 Chapter 7: Fictionality and the Representation of Persons 151 Part Three: Authors and Nonpersons 173 Chapter 8: 'Me and My Ink' 175 Chapter 9: Things as Authors 201 Chapter 10: Authors Owning Nothing 230 Bibliography 253 Index 267

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