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Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century /
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,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Front matter; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Early modern selves and the Reason v. Passion debate; Anne Killigrew: a spiritual wit; Charitable though passionate creature: the portrait of Man in late seventeenth-century sermons; Self-love in Mandeville and Hutcheson; Fashioning fictional selves from French sources: Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess; The death of Cordelia and the economics of preference in eighteenth-century moral psychology; PART II: Self-exploration in the Age of Reason: division and continuity.
- 'Chaos dark and deep': grotesque selves and self-fashioning in Pope's DunciadIn two minds: Johnson, Boswell and representations of the self; 'The place where my present hopes began to dawn': space, limitation and the perception of female selfhood in Samuel Richardson's Pamela; The discursive construction of the self in Shaftesbury and Sterne: Tristram Shandy and the quest for identity; PART III: Romantic wanderings: the self in search of (its) place; The anxiety of the self and the exile of the soul in Blake and Wordsworth.
- Transgressing the boundaries of reason: Burke's poetic (Miltonic) reading of the sublimeSelf 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); Bibliography; Index.