Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920

ISBN-13: 9780195060966 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 336 str.

Regenia Gagnier

Opis

This comparative analysis draws on working-class autobiography, public and boarding school memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by women and men in the United Kingdom to define subjectivity and value within social class and gender in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Gagnier reconsiders traditional distinctions between mind and body, private desire and public good, aesthetics and utility, and fact and value in the context of everyday life.

Recenzje

`this is a provocative work, and one that nails its colours to the mast early on ... admirable in its attention to detail and ability to assimilate those details, no matter how apparently disparate, into coherent ideological patterns. This book is a salutary reminder that the act of writing is no autotelic activity, but by its nature a mediation betwen self and society.' Bill Bell, Times Literary Supplement