The secret life of things: animals, objects, and it-narratives in eighteenth-century England

Introduction : the it-narrative and eighteenth-century thing theory / Mark Blackwell

spirit of things / Barbara M. Benedict

Rape of the lock as still life / Jonathan Lamb

Personal effects and sentimental fictions / Deidre Lynch

Suffering things : lapdogs, slaves, and counter-sensibility / Markman Ellis

It-narrators and circulation : defining a subgenre / Liz Bellamy

Britannia's rule and the it-narrator / Aileen Douglas

Speaking objects : the circulation of stories in eighteenth-century prose fiction / Christopher Flint

Hackwork : it-narratives and iteration / Mark Blackwell

Occupying works : animated objects and literary property / Hilary Jane Englert

Circulating anti-semitism : Charles Johnstone's Chrysal / Ann Louise Kibbie

Corkscrews and courtesans : sex and death in circulation novels / Bonnie Blackwell

It-narratives : fictional point of view and constructing the middle class / Nicholas Hudson

moral ends of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century object narratives / Lynn Festa

Discreet jewels : Victorian diamond narratives and the problem of sentimental value / John Plotz.