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Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Paperback)
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Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Paperback)
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In this volume a team of international contributors explore 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 vigourously contested. By analysing early
modern 'life writing' in all its variety, from private diaries and
correspondence to public confessions and philosophical portraits,
this volume shows that the relation between self and community is
more complex and more intimate than supposed. Spanning the period
from the end of the Renaissance to the eve of Romanticism in
western Europe, a period in which the explosion of print culture
afforded unprecedented opportunities for the circulation of
life-stories from all classes, this book examines the public
assertion of self by men and women in England, France and Germany
from the Renaissance to Romanticism.
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