Subjectivity
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2005
232 pages
978-0-230-21327-2 (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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-230-21327-2 (9780230213272)
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- General Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction:Who Do You Think You Are?
- Definitions
- 1 Pamela,Rousseau and Equiano:Trousseaux, Confessions and Tall Tales
- 'Who does she think she is?' The case of Pamela
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions: refusing to play the game
- Ouladah Equiano's Interesting Narrative
- 2 Two Romantic Egos:Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Thomas De Quincey's Confessions
- 3 Victorian Individualisms and Their Limitations
- Individualism
- David Copperfield - Writing like a man: telling tales and false accounting
- Circumstanced like me . Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë's wandering eye/I
- 4 James Joyce and Self-Portraiture
- 5 In Prison and in Chains:Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling
- Wilde's De Profundis: an experiment in autobiography?
- Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling: telling and restoration
- 6 Talking Properly: Class Acts in Carolyn Steedman and Alan Bennett
- Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman: between history and autobiography
- Bennett's Writing Home
- 7 China Women: Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
- Wild Swans
- Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and hyphenated identity
- 8 Death Sentences: The Sense of an Ending? Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness
- Love's Work
- Glossary
- Annotated Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Index
