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Fictions of the Self, 1550-1800
By (Author) Arnold Weinstein
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.3
Paperback
314
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
425g
The author charts the interaction between self and world through four major phases whereby the self initially has marginal status (the picaresque), begins to flourish and court recognition (Defoe, Marivaux, and Fielding), glows defiant and tries to impose its will on society and the other (Prevost, Richardson, Goethe, and Laclos), and finally makes