Description: Origins of the Individualist Self : Autobiography and Self-identity in England, 1, Hardcover by Mascuch, Michael, ISBN 0745608744, ISBN-13 9780745608747, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general and of the early modern forms of biography, diary and autobiography in particular. The result is a significant and original contribution to the history of individualism. Michael Mascuch argues that the definitive characteristic of individualist self-identity is the personal capacity to produce a unified retrospective autobiographical narrative, and he stresses that this capacity was first demonstrated in England during the last decade of the eighteenth century. He examines the long-term process of innovation in written discourse leading up to this event, from the first use of blank almanacs and common placs by the pious in the late sixteenth century, through the popular criminal biographies of the late seventeenth century, to the printed-for-the-author scandalous memoirs of the mid-eighteenth century. While offering a detailed account of a significant period in the rise of a modern literary genre, Origins of the Individualist Self also addresses topics which are central in the fields of literary and cultural theory and social and cultural history.
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Book Title: Origins of the Individualist Self : Autobiography and Self-identi
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Origins of the Individualist Self : Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Personal Memoirs
Publication Year: 1997
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Michael Mascuch
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
