Chapter 9 Things as Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue xi
5. Part One: Property, Personification, and Idols
6. Chapter 1 Owning Things 1
7. Chapter 2 The Crying of Lost Things 35
8. Chapter 3 Making Babies in the South Seas 55
9. Chapter 4 The Growth of Idols 78
10. Chapter 5 The Rape of the Lock as Still Life 98
11. Part two Persons and Fictions
12. Chapter 6 Locke’s Wild Fancies 127
13. Chapter 7 Fictionality and the Representation of Persons 151
14. Part three Authors and Nonpersons
15. Chapter 8 ‘Me and My Ink’ 173
16. Chapter 9 Things as Authors 201
17. Chapter 10 Authors Owning Nothing 230
18. Bibliography 253
19. Index 267