Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain by Joseph Drury

Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain

Joseph Drury

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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 no...

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