Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century [Hardback]

'The easy-to-follow structure of the volume gives readers the idea of the progress of thoughts in their continuity and helps understand both congruous and controversial ideas. The selection of authors and thinkers represents a kaleidoscope of the self as perceived by contemporaries and reread by twenty-first-century scholars. Writing and Constructing the Self is a must-read for academics and university students who are concerned with the philosophical, literary, historical aspects of selfhoodalong with the related notions of self-awareness, subjectivity, the first-person perspective in narratives, self-articulation, and individuality.' Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (26.1)

'Writing and Constructing the Self contributes an important critical framework and serves as a touchstone for other such focused studies of the eighteenth-century self, and selves. Scholars interested in tracing the influence of Lockes Essay and/or teaching the self to undergraduate or graduate students would find this book valuable, due to its division into parts and chapters that serve as discussion starters. The books foregrounding of women such as Haywood and Madame de La Fayette and their characters, alongside male-penned female selves, renders it an important contribution to feminist literary/cultural studies.' ABO -- .