The It-Narrator as Moral Agent: Social Guardians in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature

Despite shifts in marketing and ideological emphasis from the 1730s to the 1890s, the it-narrative genre (wherein objects and animals recount their own histories) remained surprisingly consistent in the nature of the social commentary it provided. In contrast to earlier studies, mainly devoted to s...

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Main Author: Douglas, Christopher Charles
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2016
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Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1193
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2197&context=dissertations