UID:
almafu_9959236072202883
Format:
1 online resource (296 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-76492-8
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1-134-76493-6
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1-280-31980-1
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0-203-43915-5
Content:
A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the Western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity from a variety of perspectives.
Note:
Based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Eng., spring 1995.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SELF FROM PETRARCH TO DESCARTES; SELF AND SELFHOOD IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; SELF-REFLECTION AND THE SELF; RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE FORMATION OF THE EARLY ENLIGHTENMENT SELF; THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE HISTORY OF THE SELF; THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF CHARACTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 'ANOTHER SELF IN THE CASE': GENDER, MARRIAGE AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN AUGUSTAN LITERATURE; FEELINGS AND NOVELS; ROMANTIC TRAVEL
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'AS A RULE, I DOES NOT MEAN I': PERSONAL IDENTITY AND THE VICTORIAN WOMAN POETMAPPING THE SELF: GENDER, SPACE AND MODERNITY IN MID-VICTORIAN LONDON; STORIES OF THE EYE; THE MODERN AUDITORY I; ASSEMBLING THE MODERN SELF; DEATH AND THE SELF; SELF-UNDOING SUBJECTS; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-14280-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-14279-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203439159
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