The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narra...
Benedict, Barbara M. / Lamb, Jonathan / Blackwell, Mark The essays in The Secret Life of Things approach it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, from various theoretical and historical vantage points. While sketching the cultural biography of a neglected literary form, these wide-ranging essays both enrich and complicate the history of prose fiction in the second half of the eighteenth century.