Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Series: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781526123374
Table of contents: title: Front matter; title: Contents; title: Contributors; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: PART I: Early modern selves and the Reason v. Passion debate; title: Anne Killigrew: a spiritual wit; title: Charitable though passionate creature: the portrait of Man in late seventeenth-century sermons; title: Self-love in Mandeville and Hutcheson; title: Fashioning fictional selves from French sources: Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess; title: The death of Cordelia and the economics of preference in eighteenth-century moral psychology; title: PART II: Self-exploration in the Age of Reason: division and continuity.; title: 'Chaos dark and deep': grotesque selves and self-fashioning in Pope's Dunciad; title: In two minds: Johnson, Boswell and representations of the self; title: 'The place where my present hopes began to dawn': space, limitation and the perception of female selfhood in Samuel Richardson's Pamela; title: The discursive construction of the self in Shaftesbury and Sterne: Tristram Shandy and the quest for identity; title: PART III: Romantic wanderings: the self in search of (its) place; title: The anxiety of the self and the exile of the soul in Blake and Wordsworth.; title: Transgressing the boundaries of reason: Burke's poetic (Miltonic) reading of the sublime; title: Self and community in radical defence in the French revolutionary era: the example of Oppression!!!; title: The Appeal of Captain Perry to the People of England (1795); title: Bibliography; title: Index