Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the PresentRoy Porter Psychology Press, 1997 - 283 strán (strany) Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the Present. The contributors analyse 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. |
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REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SELF FROM PETRARCH TO DESCARTES | 17 |
SELF AND SELFHOOD IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 29 |
SELFREFLECTION AND THE SELF | 49 |
ENLIGHTENMENT | 59 |
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE FORMATION OF THE EARLY ENLIGHTENMENT SELF | 61 |
THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE HISTORY OF THE SELF | 72 |
THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF CHARACTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 84 |
ANOTHER SELF IN THE CASE Gender marriage and the individual in Augustan literature | 97 |
AS A RULE I DOES NOT MEAN I Personal identity and the Victorian woman poet | 156 |
MAPPING THE SELF Gender space and modernity in midVictorian London | 167 |
STORIES OF THE EYE | 186 |
MODERN AND POSTMODERN | 201 |
THE MODERN AUDITORY I | 203 |
ASSEMBLING THE MODERN SELF | 224 |
DEATH AND THE SELF | 249 |
SELFUNDOING SUBJECTS | 262 |