Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long - Eighteenth Centur

This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the Enlightenment. The questions raised by the twelve essays and the introduction, explore the unity, diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self.

List of contents

Introduction
The written self - John Baker and Marion Leclair

Part I Early modern selves and the Reason v. Passion debate
1. Anne Killigrew, a spiritual wit - Laura Alexander
2. Charitable though passionate creature: the portrait of Man in late seventeenth-century sermons - Regina Maria Dal Santo
3. Self-love in Mandeville and Hutcheson - Jeffrey Hopes
4. Fashioning fictional selves from French sources: Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess - Orla Smyth
5. The death of Cordelia and the economics of preference in eighteenth-century moral psychology - William Flesch

Part II Self-exploration in the Age of Reason: division and continuity
6. 'Chaos dark and deep': grotesque selves and self-fashioning in Pope's Dunciad - Clark Lawlor
7. In two minds: Johnson, Boswell and representations of the self - Allan Ingram
8. 'The Place where my present hopes began to dawn': space, limitation and the perception of female selfhood in Samuel Richardson's Pamela - Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz
9. The discursive construction of the self in Shaftesbury and Sterne: Tristram Shandy and the quest for identity - Gioiella Bruni Roccia

Part III Romantic wanderings: the self in search of (its) place
10. The anxiety of the self and the exile of the soul in Blake and Wordsworth - Laura Quinney
11. Transgressing the boundaries of reason: Burke's poetic (Miltonic) reading of the sublime - Eva Antal
12. Self and community in radical defence in the French revolutionary era: the example of Oppression!!! The Appeal of Captain Perry to the People of England (1795) - Rachel Rogers

Bibliography
Index

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

Summary

This volume explores the notion of the ‘self’ as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the Enlightenment. The questions raised by the twelve essays and the introduction, explore the unity, diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self. -- .

Product details

• Authors: John Baker, John Ingram Baker, John Leclair Baker, Allan Ingram, John Baker, Marion Leclair
• Assisted by: John Baker (Editor), Allan Ingram (Editor), Marion Leclair (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781526123367
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2336-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cen; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Ce
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies