Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2019
Editors:	John Baker • Marion Leclair • Allan Ingram
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-2336-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-5261-2336-3
Barcode:	9781526123367

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