Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century / edited by John Baker, Marion Leclair and Allan Ingram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, John, editor.

Leclair, Marion, editor.

Ingram, Allan, editor.

Series:

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Pt. 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

pt. 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

pt. 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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and information supplied online (viewed on January 9, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-2338-X

1-5261-2337-1

OCLC:

1057725825