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02601aam a2200385Mi 4500 001 965167F0580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170529t20172017enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198792383 020 $a 0198792387 035 $a (OCoLC)988170416 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d COO $d OCLCO $d STF $d SILO 050 4 $a PR858.T4 $b D78 2017 082 04 $a 823/.509 $2 23 100 1 $a Drury, Joseph, $e author. 245 10 $a Novel machines : $b technology and narrative form in enlightenment Britain / $c Joseph Drury. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xii, 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index. 520 8 $a Eighteenth-century fiction is full of mechanical devices and contrivances: Robinson Crusoe uses his gun and compass to master his island and its inhabitants; Tristram Shandy's conception is interrupted by a question about a clock and he has his nose damaged at birth by a man-midwife's forceps; Ann Radcliffe's gothic heroines play musical instruments to soothe their troubled minds. In Novel Machines, however, Joseph Drury argues that the most important machine in any eighteenth-century novel is the narrative itself. Like other kinds of machine, a narrative is an artificial construction composed of different parts that combine to produce a sequence of causally linked actions. Like other machines, a narrative is designed to produce predictable effects and can therefore be put to certain uses. Such affinities had been apparent to critics since Aristotle, but they began to assume a particular urgency in the eighteenth century as authors sought to organize their narratives according to the new ideas about nature, art, and the human subject that emerged out of the Scientific Revolution. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Technology in literature. 650 0 $a Machinery in literature. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Machinery in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01005035 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032927 650 7 $a Technology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01145292 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116055058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=965167F0580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search