Rewriting the Self

This work is an exploration of ideas of the self, in the western cultural tradition, from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze differing religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity. They examine these models from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. This study offers a challenge to the received version of the "ascent of western man". The book is based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The contributors include prominent academics from a range of disciplines.

ISBN 0415142806   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780415142809 (What's this?)   Pages 296 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 599 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 05 Dec 1996   Height (mm) 234 Non-book description xii, 283 p. :   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress BD450.R444   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 809.93592   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of plates
		Notes on contributors
		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction by Roy Porter		1
1		Representations of the Self from Petrarch to Descartes by Peter Burke		17
2		Self and Selfhood in the Seventeenth Century by Jonathan Sawday		29
3		Self-Reflection and the Self by Roger Smith		49
4		Religious Experience and the Formation of the Early Enlightenment Self by Jane Shaw		61
5		The European Enlightenment and the History of the Self by E. J. Hundert		72
6		The Death and Rebirth of Character in the Eighteenth Century by Sylvana Tomaselli		84
7		'Another Self in the Case': Gender, Marriage and the Individual in Augustan Literature by Carolyn D. Williams		97
8		Feelings and Novels by John Mullan		119
9		Romantic Travel by Roger Cardinal		135
10		'... As a Rule, I Does Not Mean I': Personal Identity and the Victorian Woman Poet by Kate Flint		156
11		Mapping the Self: Gender, Space and Modernity in Mid-Victorian London by Lynda Nead		167
12		Stories of the Eye by Daniel Pick		186
13		The Modern Auditory I by Steven Connor		203
14		Assembling the Modern Self by Nikolas Rose		224
15		Death and the Self by Jonathan Dollimore		249
16		Self-Undoing Subjects by Terry Eagleton		262
		Index		270

"The collection is full of provocative insights and is capped with two outstanding pieces...."-"Punch, 1/10/97 "Roy Porter's stellar volume puts together a wide range of selves in its search for the self. A host of distinguished authors question the construction of the very idea of the self in illuminating detail. Each chapter provides another turning to the question until the reader starts to imagine him/herself as a fragmented series of selves. Readers beware! There are more selves to your self than meets the eye!."-Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago ""Rewriting the Self challenges some of our most deeply held myths about the individual in the West...Roy Porter has assembled an all-star cast of historians and critics here, and his introduction to "Rewriting the Self moves us easily through the shoals of an important intellectual journey."-Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto

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