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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover has some wear but pages are free from notes and in first class condition. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> This study takes a look at the prob lematic role played by the handmade doubles the three-dimensional physical figures such as dolls and puppets that fictional characters and craftsmen create in their own images. Author Kitti Carriker maintains that especially when created in miniature dolls seem to appeal to the reader’s fas- cination with and fear of images made in human likeness. Viewing the doll the robot and the miniature as manifesta- tions of Freud’s notion of The Uncanny; Lacan’s Discourse of the Other Julia Kristeva’s concept of The Abject; and Susan Stewart’s juxtaposition of The Miniature and The Gigantic provides a way to explore the psychological impli- cations of their creation and the extent and limitations of the power they hold- if indeed any-over the human beings who have served as their models and creators. The motif of the man-made double can be traced through several centuries of literature and this study looks pri- marily at British fiction and poetry from the latter half of the eighteenth century to the present. Where pertinent Carriker also examines examples drawn from the American literature and Continental fiction of the same period. (LL)