Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism

Edited by Patrick Coleman , Jayne Lewis , Jill Kowalik

ISBN 10: 0521661463 / ISBN 13: 9780521661461

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

About this Item

This book examines the public assertion of self by men and women in England, France and Germany from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Editor(s): Coleman, Patrick; Lewis, Jayne; Kowalik, Jill. Num Pages: 298 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 525. . 2000. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521661463
• ISBN 13: 9780521661461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A team of international contributors explores the way modern conceptions of what constitutes an individual's life story emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Enlightenment idea of the self--an autonomous individual, testing rules imposed from without against a personal sensibility nourished from within--is today vigorously contested. By analyzing early-modern "life writing" in all its variety, from private diaries and correspondences to public confessions and philosophical portraits, this volume shows that the relation between self and community is more complex and more intimate than supposed.

Review

"a valuable volume." Eighteenth Century Fiction