Subjectivity
- Title
- Subjectivity / Ruth Robbins.
- Published by
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 216 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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
- Transitions
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- Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- 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
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-213) and index.