TY - BOOK AU - Napier,Elizabeth R. TI - Falling into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fictions SN - 9781442641983 AV - PR858.B63 N37 2012eb U1 - 823.5093561 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Body and soul in literature KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Human body in literature KW - Mind and body in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Robinson Crusoe: Discord --; 2 Gulliver’s Travels: Shock --; 3 Clarissa: Grace --; 4 Tom Jones: Cohesion --; 5 A Simple Story: Dissipation --; 6 Frankenstein: Dissociation --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690196 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442690196 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442690196/original ER -