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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coleman, Patrick.

Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth.

Kowalik, Jill Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Self-presentation in literature.

Enlightenment--Europe.

Enlightenment.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This edited collection of essays examines the history of autobiography from 1600 to 1800.

Contents:

Introduction: life-writing and the legitimation of the modern self / Patrick Coleman 1

1 Revising Descartes: on subject and community / Timothy J. Reiss 16

2 The "man of learning" defended: seventeenth-century biographies of scholars and an early modern ideal of excellence / Peter N. Miller 39

3 Life-writing in seventeenth-century England / Debora Shuger 63

4 Representations of intimacy in the life-writing of Anne Clifford and Anne Dormer / Mary O'Connor 79

5 Gender, genre, and theatricality in the autobiography of Charlotte Charke / Robert Folkenflik 97

6 Petrarch/Sade: writing the life / Julie Candler Hayes 117

7 A comic life: Diderot and le recit de vie / Stephen Werner 135

8 Letters, diary, and autobiography in eighteenth-century France / Benoit Melancon 151

9 Portrait of the object of love in Rousseau's Confessions / Felicity Baker 171

10 Fichte's road to Kant / Anthony J. La Vopa 200

11 Mary Robinson and the scripts of female sexuality / Anne K. Mellor 230

12 After Sir Joshua / Richard Wendorf 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521661463

OCLC:

41231600