Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Baker, John; Ingram, Allan; Leclair, Marion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The injunction, 'Know thyself!', resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The 'self' remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, indispensable and elusive; something we take for granted and yet remains difficult to pin down, describe or define. This volume of twelve essays explores how writers in different domains - philosophers and thinkers, novelists, poets, churchmen, political writers and others - construed, fashioned and expressed the self in written form in Great Britain in the course of the long eighteenth century from the Restoration to the period of the French Revolution. The essays are preceded by an introduction that seeks to frame several key aspects of the debate on the self in a succinct and open-minded spirit. The volume foregrounds the coming into being of a recognisably modern self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526123350
• Artikelnr.: 55006728

Autorenporträt

John Baker is Senior Lecturer in English at Panthéon-Sorbonne University - Paris 1 Marion Leclair is a doctoral student at Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3 and a research and teaching assistant at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The written self - John Baker and Marion Leclair Part I Early
modern selves and the Reason v. Passion debate 1. Anne Killigrew, a
spiritual wit - Laura Alexander 2. Charitable though passionate creature:
the portrait of Man in late seventeenth-century sermons - Regina Maria Dal
Santo 3. Self-love in Mandeville and Hutcheson - Jeffrey Hopes 4.
Fashioning fictional selves from French sources: Eliza Haywood's Love in
Excess - Orla Smyth 5. The death of Cordelia and the economics of
preference in eighteenth-century moral psychology - William Flesch Part II
Self-exploration in the Age of Reason: division and continuity 6. 'Chaos
dark and deep': grotesque selves and self-fashioning in Pope's Dunciad -
Clark Lawlor 7. In two minds: Johnson, Boswell and representations of the
self - Allan Ingram 8. 'The Place where my present hopes began to dawn':
space, limitation and the perception of female selfhood in Samuel
Richardson's Pamela - Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz 9. The discursive
construction of the self in Shaftesbury and Sterne: Tristram Shandy and the
quest for identity - Gioiella Bruni Roccia Part III Romantic wanderings:
the self in search of (its) place 10. The anxiety of the self and the exile
of the soul in Blake and Wordsworth - Laura Quinney 11. Transgressing the
boundaries of reason: Burke's poetic (Miltonic) reading of the sublime -
Eva Antal 12. Self and community in radical defence in the French
revolutionary era: the example of Oppression!!! The Appeal of Captain Perry
to the People of England (1795) - Rachel Rogers Bibliography Index