The life of Gouverneur Morris : with selections from his correspondence and miscellaneous papers ; detailing events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the political history of the United States /

"Index of letters" vol. III, p. [501]-506.

Gouverneur Morris,

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An inaugural discourse, delivered before the New York Historical Society, 4th September, 1816; the 206th anniversary of the discovery of New-York, by Hudson.

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Discourse delivered before the New-York Historical Society, at their anniversary meeting, 6th December, 1812.

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War stories,

Reprinted in part from various periodicals.

Success in life : the lawyer /

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Visitas al Santísimo Sacramento y á la Virgen /

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Cheselden's plates of the human bones, correctly reduced from the original copy, and improved with additional figures; accompanied with concise explanations for the use of students.

Signature of Wm. Hunter, 1819, on half-title.

Boniface, oder, Feyer des Andenkens an die erste christliche Kirche in Thüringen, bey Altenberga im Herzogthum Gotha : nebst einer historischen Nachricht von seinem Leben /

Includes bibliographical references.

Kleine schriften : nach seinem tode gesammelt un herausgegeben /

Includes bibliographical references.

The seven Darlings,

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A discourse on the agriculture of the state of Connecticut, and the means of making it more beneficial to the state : delivered at New Haven, on Thursday, 12th September, 1816 /

Shaw & Shoemaker

The value of books : the fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and the social hieroglyphic of reading

The late eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of new technologies of subjectivity and of the literary. Most obviously, “the novel as a literary form appeared to embody and turn into an object the experience of life itself” (Park), and the novel genre came to both reflect and shape notions of interiority and subjectivity. In this same period, “A shift was taking place in the way people felt and thought about children and the accoutrements of childhood, including books and toys, were implicated in this change” (Lewis). In seeking to understand the relationships between media (e.g. books and toys), genres (e.g. novels and picture books), and modes of subjectivity, Marx’s influential theory of commodity fetishism, whereby “a definite social relation between men, that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things”, has served as a productive tool of analysis. The extent to which Marx’s account of commodity fetishism continues to be of use becomes clear when the corollaries between the late eighteenth-century emergence of novels and pictures books as technologies of subjectivity and the early twenty-first century emergence of e-readers and digital texts as technologies of subjectivity are considered. This paper considers the literary technology of Apple’s iPad (first launched in 2010) as a commodity fetish, and the circulation of “apps” as texts made available by and offered as justifications for, this fetish object. The iPad is both book and toy, but is never “only” either; it is arguably a new technology of subjectivity which incorporates but also destabilises categories of reading and playing such as those made familiar by earlier technologies of literature and the self. The particular focus of this paper is on the multimodal versions (app, film, and picture book) of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, which are understood here as a narrativisation of commodity fetishism, subjectivity, and the act of reading itself.