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Rewriting the self : histories from the Renaissance to the present

Title
Rewriting the self : histories from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Roy Porter.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Porter, Roy, 1946-
  • Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
Description
xii, 283 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Self (Philosophy) > History
  • Self (Philosophy) in literature > History
  • Identity (Psychology) > History
Note
  • Based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, spring 1995.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Representations of the self from Petrarch to Descartes / Peter Burke -- Self and selfhood in the seventeenth century / Jonathan Sawday -- Self-reflection and the self / Roger Smith -- Religious experience and the formation of the early Englightenment self / Jane Shaw -- The European Enlightenment and the history of the self / E.J. Hundert -- The death and rebirth of character in the 18th century / Sylvana Tomaselli -- "Another self in case" : gender, marriage, and the individual in Augustan literature / Carolyn D. Williams -- Feelings and novels / John Mullan -- Romantic travel / Roger Cardinal -- "... As a rule, I does not mean I" : personal identity and the Victorian woman poet / Kate Flint -- Mapping the self : gender, space, and modernity in mid-Victorian London / Lynn Nead -- Stories of the eye / Daniel Pick -- The modern auditory I / Steve Connor -- Assembling the modern self / Nikolas Rose -- Death and the self / Jonathan Dollimore -- Self-undoing subjects / Terry Eagleton.
Call Number
JFE 97-2284
ISBN
  • 0415142792
  • 0415142806 (pbk.)
LCCN
96015698
OCLC
34564818
Title
Rewriting the self : histories from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Roy Porter.
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Porter, Roy, 1946-
Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
Research Call Number
JFE 97-2284
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