1st Edition

British It-Narratives, 1750–1830, Volume 1

    It-narratives are prose fictions that take as their central characters animals or inanimate objects. This four-volume reset collection includes numerous examples of narratives in different forms, including short stories, excerpts from novels, periodical fiction and serialized works.

    Volume 1 General Introduction Money Introduction [Bonnell Thornton], ‘The Adventures of a Halfpenny’, Adventurer (1753) [Edward Thompson], ‘Adventures of a Six-and-Nine-Pence’, Westminster Magazine (1774) Mr Truelove, The Adventures of a Silver Penny ([1780]) Helenus Scott, The Adventures of a Rupee (1782) [Richard Johnson], The Adventures of a Silver Penny ([c. 1786]) J. D—T, ‘The Adventures of a Shilling’, New Lady’s Magazine (1788–9) [William Perkins Taylor], Argentum: or Adventures of a Shilling (1794) ‘The Adventures of a Bad Shilling in the Kingdom of Ireland’, Ireland’s Mirror (1805–6) Ann Mary Hamilton, The Adventures of a Seven-Shilling Piece (1811) The Origin and Adventures of a Hull Eighteen-Penny Silver Token ([1811]) ‘The Adventures of a Bank Note’, Scourge (1813) ‘Adventures of a One Pound Bank Note’, Theatre, or, Dramatic and Literary Mirror (1819) ‘The Adventures of a Sovereign’, Lady’s Monthly Museum (1819–22) A Month’s Adventures of a Base Shilling ([c. 1820]) Peregrine Oakley, Aureus: or, The Life and Opinions of A Sovereign (1824) [Robert Ainslie], ‘The Life and Adventures of a Scotch Guinea Note’, Edinburgh Magazine (1826) Explanatory Notes Textual Notes

    Biography

    Mark Blackwell, Liz Bellamy, Christina Lupton, Heathe Keenleyside