Background
Wall, Cynthia Sundberg was born on February 16, 1959 in Minneapolis. Daughter of Richard Johannes Sundberg and Nancy Louise Johnson.
(In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of...)
In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of the ancient commercial City of London. All that had been familiar, settled, known, was suddenly swept away, and Londoners faced an emptiness that was not only physical but also historical, social, financial, and conceptual. In this study Cynthia Wall reads the literature of Restoration and early-eighteenth-century London in the context of other texts such as sermons, royal proclamations, maps, and topographies, and shows how literature attempts to reinvest the city with "modern" meaning and create new spaces for new genres.
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( Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in...)
Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object—a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.
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Wall, Cynthia Sundberg was born on February 16, 1959 in Minneapolis. Daughter of Richard Johannes Sundberg and Nancy Louise Johnson.
Bachelor, St. Olaf College, 1981. Master of Arts in Philosophy, Northwestern University, Chicago, 1983. Master of Arts in English, University Chicago, 1987.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1992.
Reference specialist Newberry Library., Chicago, 1983-1991. Visiting assistant professor Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1992-1994. Assistant professor University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1994-1999, associate professor, 1999—2005, professor, since 2006, chair, since 2009.
( Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in...)
(In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of...)
Member Modern Language Association, American Society 18th Century Studies (fellow 1994, 95), Johnson's Athenaeum.
Married John Allen Wall, March 30, 1985 (divorced April 1995).