Rewriting the Self

Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present

By: Roy Porter (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 December 1996 | Edition Number 1

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296 Pages

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"Rewriting the Self" is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze different religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. Challenging the received version of the "ascent of western man," they assess the discursive construction of the self in the light of political, technological and social changes.
Contributors include: Peter Burke, Roger Cardinal, Stephen Connor, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry Eagleton, Kate Flint, E.J. Hundert, John Mullan, Linda Nead, Daniel Pick, Nikolas Rose, Jonathan Sawday, Jane Shaw, Roger Smith, Sylvana Tomaselli and Carolyn D. Williams.

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"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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