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Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century
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2019
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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.
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Front matter
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
1 - Part I: Early modern selves and the Reason v. Passion debate
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1 Anne Killigrew
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2 Charitable though passionate creature
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3 Self-love in Mandeville and Hutcheson
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4 Fashioning fictional selves from French sources
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5 The death of Cordelia and the economics of preference in eighteenth-century moral psychology
95 - Part II: Self-exploration in the Age of Reason: division and continuity
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6 ‘Chaos dark and deep’
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7 In two minds
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8 ‘The place where my present hopes began to dawn’
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9 The discursive construction of the self in Shaftesbury and Sterne
170 - Part III: Romantic wanderings: the self in search of (its) place
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10 The anxiety of the self and the exile of the soul in Blake and Wordsworth
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11 Transgressing the boundaries of reason
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12 Self and community in radical defence in the French revolutionary era
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Bibliography
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Index
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September 13, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526123374
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9781526123374
Keywords for this book
the self; the long eighteenth century; personal identity; self-love; John Locke; consciousness; self-fashioning; secularisation; the soul; individualism; long eighteenth century; individual
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
