Introduction: life-writing and the legitimation of the modern self / Patrick Coleman -- Revisiting Descartes: on subject and community / Timothy J. Reiss -- The "man of learning" defended: seventeenth-century biographies of scholars and an early modern ideal of excellence / Peter N. Miller -- Life-writing in seventeenth-century England / Debora Shuger -- Representations of intimacy in the life-writing of Anne Clifford and Anne Dormer / Mary O'Connor -- Gender, genre, and theatricality in the autobiography of Charlotte Charke / Robert Folkenflik -- Petrarch/Sade: writing the life / Julie Candler Hayes -- A comic life: Diderot and le récit de vie / Stephen Werner -- Letters, diary, and autobiography in eighteenth-century France / Benoît Melançon -- Portrait of the object of love in Rousseau's Confessions / Felicity Baker -- Fichte's road to Kant / Anthony F. La Vopa -- Mary Robinson and the scripts of female sexuality / Anne K. Mellor -- After Sir Joshua / Richard Wendorf.
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