{"product_id":"falling-into-matter-3","title":"Falling into Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFalling into Matter\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing on six works of early English fiction — Daniel Defoe's \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e, Jonathan Swift's \u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/em\u003e, Samuel Richardson's \u003cem\u003eClarissa\u003c\/em\u003e, Henry Fielding's \u003cem\u003eTom Jones\u003c\/em\u003e, Elizabeth Inchbald's \u003cem\u003eA Simple Story\u003c\/em\u003e, and Mary Shelley's \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e - 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. \u003cem\u003eFalling into Matter\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Elizabeth R. Napier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55075338125692,"sku":"9781442664326","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442664326_fe5ec657-7494-43b6-a27f-8e50e3af098d.jpg?v=1743626414","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/falling-into-matter-3","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}