Mark Blackwell (ed.). The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England.(Book review)

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Mark Blackwell (ed.). The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2007. $62.50 365 pp ISBN 10:0-8387-5666-2

"I am sure that Jane Austen purists the world over are steaming," a former student wrote to me. She was referring to Becoming Jane--the latest film release on Jane Austen. Austen phenomena, similar to it-narratives of the eighteenth century, has taken on a life of its own. Very little in the film had to do with Austen's actual letters and biographical data. Most of the plot seemed based on a loose ...

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