Rewriting the Self
Subtitle: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present
By: edited by Roy Porter.
Contributors: Porter, Roy, 1946-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Self (Philosophy) -- History; Self (Philosophy) in literature; Identity (Psychology) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Eng., spring 1995.
Table of contents: title: Representations of the self from Petrarch to Descartes / Peter Burke; title: Self and selfhood in the seventeenth century / Jonathan Sawday; title: Self-reflection and the self / Roger Smith; title: Religious experience and the formation of the early Englightenment self / Jane Shaw; title: The European Enlightenment and the history of the self / E.J. Hundert; title: The death and rebirth of character in the 18th century / Sylvana Tomaselli; title: "Another self in case" : gender, marriage, and the individual in Augustan literature / Carolyn D. Williams; title: Feelings and novels / John Mullan; title: Romantic travel / Roger Cardinal; title: "; title: As a rule, I does not mean I" : personal identity and the Victorian woman poet / Kate Flint; title: Mapping the self : gender, space, and modernity in mid-Victorian London / Lynn Nead; title: Stories of the eye / Daniel Pick; title: The modern auditory I / Steven Connor; title: Assembling the modern self / Nikolas Rose; title: Death and the self / Jonathan Dollimore; title: Self-undoing subjects / Terry Eagleton.