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Falling into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley

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Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth R. Napier argues that despite an increasing emphasis on the need to present ideas in corporeal terms, early fiction writers continued to register spiritual and moral reservations about the centrality of the body to human and imaginative experience.Drawing on six works of early English fiction - Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , Henry Fielding's Tom Jones , Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story , and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Napier examines how authors grappled with technical and philosophical issues of the body, questioning its capacity for moral action, its relationship to individual freedom and dignity, and its role in the creation of art. Falling into Matter charts the course of the early novel as its authors engaged formally, stylistically, and thematically with the increasingly insistent role of the body in the new genre.

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Released March 8, 2012
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Elizabeth R. Napier is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Elizabeth R. Napier can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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