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Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Autor Christopher Borsing
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2019
The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like many of this age, had religious difficulties with Locke’s empiricist analysis of human identity. In particular, it examines how Defoe explores competitive individualism as a social threat while also demonstrating the literary and psychological fiction of any concept of a separated, lone identity. This foreshadows Michel Foucault’s assertion that the idea of man is ‘a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge’. The monograph’s engagement with Defoe’s destabilization of any definition or image of personal identity across a wide range of genres – including satire, political propaganda, history, conduct literature, travel narrative, spiritual autobiography, piracy and history, economic and scientific literature, rogue biography, scandalous and secret history, dystopian documentary, science fiction and apparition narrative - is an important and original contribution to the literary and cultural understanding of the early eighteenth century as it interrogates and challenges modern presumptions of individual identity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367175658
ISBN-10: 0367175657
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction
1. ‘The True-Born Englishman’: The Construction of a Persona
2. The Family Instructor: One-sided dialogue
3. Robinson Crusoe: Spoken by an Other
4. Captain Singleton: Incommensurable Exchanges
5. Questionable Identities: Moll Flanders and Roxana
6. Not Imaginary but Fictitious: Defoe and the Apparitions of Fiction

Descriere

Based on close reading of a representative range of Defoe’s writing, Borsing presents a study of Defoe’s engagement with the concept of personal identity, exploring his construction of personae, his forays into different literary genres and the role of religion in his philosophy.