Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Patrick Coleman • Jayne Lewis • Jill Kowalik
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-66146-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-521-66146-3
Barcode:	9780521661461

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