The Self and It by Park Julie;

Author:Park, Julie;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

If working with the novel form appears fraught with technical and psychological difficulties for Burney, the social and ideological background for her novels surrounding ideas about mechanical subjectivity—embedded as much in the sights and artifacts of material culture as in conduct book dictates and contemporary philosophy—challenges further the notion that women can mediate subjectivity through acts of invention as opposed to copying. Few other models of subjectivity appear to compel and thwart the heroines more, and Burney herself, than the ever-capacious figure of eighteenth-century machine life and its well-modulated displays of openness and inwardness, whether captured in marvelous toys, the strict patterns of conduct book femininity, or the carefully crafted characters of a novel.

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