Impossible Individuality : Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802.

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Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a combination of political, social, and psychological developments resulted in the modern concept of selfhood. More than a study of one natio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Izenberg, Gerald N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Self in literature.
Romanticism.
Literature and revolutions.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Romantisme.
Littérature et révolutions.
romanticism (form of expression)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and revolutions
Romanticism
Self in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a combination of political, social, and psychological developments resulted in the modern concept of selfhood. More than a study of one national culture influencing another, this work goes to the heart of kindred intellectual processes in three European countries. Izenberg makes two persuasive and related arguments. The first is that the Romantics developed a new idea of the self as characterized by fundamentally opposing impulses: a dri.
Physical Description:1 online resource (367 pages)
ISBN:9781400820665
1400820669

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