Subjectivity
Published on 21. April 2005
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-333-75278-4 (ISBN)
Description
Subjectivity is a multiple and complex term; it moves between theoretical or philosophical abstractions and the apparently empirical evidence of lived experience. In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins examines the diverse factors which shape the self in language. Through readings of autobiographical texts written during the last three centuries, Robbins argues for a concept of subjectivity that takes account of the material world in which selves come into being, and places this psychoanalytic concept in a broader theoretical framework. This book is essential reading for all those studying Autobiography or Autobiographical Writing.
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Series
Edition
2005
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-75278-4 (9780333752784)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-21327-2
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Person
RUTH ROBBINS is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Literary Feminisms and Pater to Forster, 1873-1924, both also in the Palgrave Macmillan Transitions series.
Content
General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Who Do You Think You Are?.- Pamela, Rousseau and Equiano: Trousseaux, Confessions and Tall Tales.- Two Romantic Egos: Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater.- Victorian Individualisms and its Limitations.- James Joyce and Self-Portraiture.- In Prison and in Chains: Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling.- Talking Proper: Class Acts in Carolyn Steedman and Alan Bennett.- China Women: Maxine Hong Kingston and Jung Chang.- The Sense of an Ending? Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness.- Glossary.- Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.