Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay -- Notes -- Part I When Essays and Things Meet -- 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential -- "A...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay -- Notes -- Part I When Essays and Things Meet -- 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential -- "A Haven for the Private, Idiosyncratic Voice": The Essay's Subjectivity and Particularity -- "Dispersed Meditations": The Essay's Anti-Systematic Approach -- The Essay as a Democratic Genre -- Notes -- 2 Things and How They Appear to Us -- The Inexhaustibility of Thingness: Graham Harman's 'Flat Ontology' -- Between 'Misuse Value' and 'Redemptive Reification': Bill Brown's 'Dialectical Objects' -- Collective Thingness: Jean Baudrillard's 'Sign Value' and Theodor W. Adorno's 'False Needs' -- Notes -- 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes -- The Transformative Mode -- The Associative Mode -- The Meta-Reflective Mode -- Note -- Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays -- 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century -- Things in Eighteenth-Century Culture -- Things in Eighteenth-Century Literature -- "A Tree Turned Upside Down": The Transformative Mode and Satirical Anthropomorphisation in Jonathan Swift's "Meditation Upon a Broomstick" (1701) -- "An Ordinary Coin": The Transformative Mode and Social Stabilisation in Joseph Addison's Tatler-Piece No. 249 (1710) -- "A Silent Chronicle of Past Hours": The Meta-Reflective Mode as Door Opener in Henry Mackenzie's "The Mirror No. 61" (1779) -- Notes -- 5 Thing-Essays During Romanticism -- Things in Romantic Culture -- Things in Romantic Literature -- "Trifles of this Sort": The Associative Mode as a Way Out of Commodity Culture's 'False Needs' in Charles Lamb's "Old China" (1823).