Rewriting the self [electronic resource] : histories from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Roy Porter.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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Variant Title:
Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present
Format: Electronic eBook
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
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  • 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 / Steven Connor
  • Assembling the modern self / Nikolas Rose
  • Death and the self / Jonathan Dollimore
  • Self-undoing subjects / Terry Eagleton.