Subjectivity

Title
  1. Subjectivity / Ruth Robbins.
Published by
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Author
  1. Robbins, Ruth, 1965-

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Description
  1. x, 216 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. Ruth Robbins examines the diverse factors which shape the self in language. Through readings of autobiographical texts written during the last three centuries, she argues for a concept of subjectivity that takes account of the material world in which selves come into being.
Series statement
  1. Transitions
Uniform title
  1. Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subject
  1. English literature > History and criticism
  2. Subjectivity in literature
  3. Self in literature
  4. 17.86 literary genres, theory of genre
  5. English literature
  6. Englisch
  7. Literatur
  8. Subjektivität
  9. Subject (filosofie)
  10. Letterkunde
  11. Autobiografieën
  12. Englisch
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Introduction : who do you think you are? -- 1. Pamela, Rousseau and Equiano : trousseaux, confessions and tall tales -- 2. Two romantic egos : Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions of an English opium eater -- 3. Victorian individualisms and their limitations -- 4. James Joyce and self-portraiture -- 5. In prison and in chains : Oscar Wilde's De profundis and Brian Keenan's An evil cradling -- 6. Talking properly : class acts in Carolyn Steedman and Alan Bennett -- 7. China women : Jung Chang's Wild swans and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- 8. Death sentences : the sense of an ending? : living with dying in narratives of terminal illness.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-213) and index.