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: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Self (Philosophy) -- History; Self (Philosophy) in literature -- History; Identity (Psychology) -- History
Notes: Based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Eng., spring 1995.

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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 Enlightenment 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 eighteenth 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 / Lynda Nead.; title: Stories of the eye / Daniel Pick.; title: The modern auditory I / Steve Connor.; title: Assembling the modern self / Nikolas Rose.; title: Death and the self / Jonathan Dollimore.; title: Self-undoing subjects / Terry Eagleton.