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The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans
By (Author) Frederick Garber
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.93384
Hardback
342
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
652g
Frederick Garber studies in a wide range of English, French, German, and American literary texts instances of the struggle for the self's autonomy during the period preceding modernism. In tracing a pattern that changes from the unsettling of bourgeois conditions in Richardson to the collapse of that challenge in the Decadents, he demonstrates that