ABSTRACT
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.
Rewriting the Self offers a challenge to the received version of the 'ascent of western man'. Lively and controversial, the book broaches big questions in an accessible way.
Rewriting the Self arises from a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The contributors include prominent academics from a range of disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN
part |2 pages
Part II ENLIGHTENMENT
chapter 7|22 pages
‘ANOTHER SELF IN THE CASE’
part |2 pages
Part III ROMANTICISM
chapter 11|19 pages
MAPPING THE SELF: GENDER, SPACE AND MODERNITY IN MID-VICTORIAN LONDON
part |2 pages
Part IV MODERN AND POSTMODERN