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Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism

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Patrick Coleman, Timothy J. Reiss, Peter N. Miller, Debora Shuger, Mary O'Connor, Robert Folkenflik, Julie Candler Hayes, Stephen Werner, Benoit Melancon, Felicity Baker, Anthony J. La Vopa, Anne K. Mellor, Richard Wendorf
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  • Date Published: January 2009
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521101844

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  • A team of international contributors explores the way modern conceptions of what constitutes an individual's life story emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Enlightenment idea of the self--an autonomous individual, testing rules imposed from without against a personal sensibility nourished from within--is today vigorously contested. By analyzing early-modern "life writing" in all its variety, from private diaries and correspondences to public confessions and philosophical portraits, this volume shows that the relation between self and community is more complex and more intimate than supposed.

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    • Date Published: January 2009
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521101844
    • length: 300 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.44kg
    • contains: 14 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Patrick Coleman
    1. Revising Descartes: on subject and community Timothy J. Reiss
    2. The 'man of learning' defended: seventeenth-century biographies of scholars and an early modern ideal of excellence Peter N. Miller
    3. Life-writing in seventeenth-century England Debora Shuger
    4. Representations of intimacy in the life-writing of Anne Clifford and Anne Dormer Mary O'Connor
    5. Gender, genre and theatricality in the autobiography of Charlotte Charke Robert Folkenflik
    6. Petrarch/Sade: writing the life Julie Candler Hayes
    7. A comic life: Diderot and le recit de vie Stephen Werner
    8. Letters, diary and autobiography in eighteenth-century France Benoit Melancon
    9. Portrait of the object of love in Rousseau's Confessions Felicity Baker
    10. Fichte's road to Kant Anthony J. La Vopa
    11. Mary Robinson and the scripts of female sexuality Anne K. Mellor
    12. After Sir Joshua Richard Wendorf
    Index.

  • Editors

    Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles

    Jayne Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

    Jill Kowalik, University of California, Los Angeles

    Contributors

    Patrick Coleman, Timothy J. Reiss, Peter N. Miller, Debora Shuger, Mary O'Connor, Robert Folkenflik, Julie Candler Hayes, Stephen Werner, Benoit Melancon, Felicity Baker, Anthony J. La Vopa, Anne K. Mellor, Richard Wendorf

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