Authoring the Self

Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for con...

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Main Author: Hess, Scott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2005
Series:Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Collection: OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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