Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century

Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century
Author: John Baker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-11-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526123355

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.