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Title:

Representations of the self from the Renaissance to Romanticism / edited by Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis, and Jill Kowalik.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.
Self-presentation in literature.
Enlightenment--Europe.

Other Authors:

Coleman, Patrick.
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth.
Kowalik, Jill Anne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780521661461
0521661463

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41231600

LCCN:

99030728

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)