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![The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century by Cynthia Sundberg Wall](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCR2ExSGdFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--95a70384c817611e00786b4450ffa8c590eadd13/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Prose%20of%20Things-%20Transformations%20of%20Description%20in%20the%20Eighteenth%20Century.jpg)
316 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226871585
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 June 2006
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Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object--a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the em...
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![The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century by Cynthia Sundberg Wall](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCR2ExSGdFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--95a70384c817611e00786b4450ffa8c590eadd13/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Prose%20of%20Things-%20Transformations%20of%20Description%20in%20the%20Eighteenth%20Century.jpg)
316 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226871585
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 June 2006
Description
Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object--a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the em...