Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century

Allan Ingram

ISBN 10: 1526123363 / ISBN 13: 9781526123367

Published by Manchester University Press, GB, 2018

About this Item

The injunction, 'Know thyself!', resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The 'self' remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, indispensable and elusive; something we take for granted and yet remains difficult to pin down, describe or define. This volume of twelve essays explores how writers in different domains - philosophers and thinkers, novelists, poets, churchmen, political writers and others - construed, fashioned and expressed the self in written form in Great Britain in the course of the long eighteenth century from the Restoration to the period of the French Revolution. The essays are preceded by an introduction that seeks to frame several key aspects of the debate on the self in a succinct and open-minded spirit. The volume foregrounds the coming into being of a recognisably modern self.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781526123367

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Publisher: Manchester University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526123363
• ISBN 13: 9781526123367
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 508 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The injunction, ‘Know thyself!’, resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The ‘self’ remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, indispensable and elusive; something we take for granted and yet remains difficult to pin down, describe or define. This volume of twelve essays explores how writers in different domains – philosophers and thinkers, novelists, poets, churchmen, political writers and others – construed, fashioned and expressed the self in written form in Great Britain in the course of the long eighteenth century from the Restoration to the period of the French Revolution. The essays are preceded by an introduction that seeks to frame several key aspects of the debate on the self in a succinct and open-minded spirit. The volume foregrounds the coming into being of a recognisably modern self.

About the Author

John Baker is Senior Lecturer in English at Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1

Marion Leclair is a doctoral student at Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris 3 and a research and teaching assistant at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle