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Subjectivity Dr Ruth Robbins

Subjectivity By Dr Ruth Robbins

Subjectivity by Dr Ruth Robbins


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Subjectivity by Dr Ruth Robbins

Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries, Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions - often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include:
- William Wordsworth's Prelude
- Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Oscar Wilde's De Profundis
- Jung Chang's Wild Swans

Robbins also argues that our subjectivity, far from being the secure possession of the individual, is potentially fragile and contingent. She shows that the versions of subjectivity authorized by the dominant culture are full of gaps and blindspots that undo any notion of universal human nature: subjectivity is culturally and historically specific - we are, in part, what the culture in which we live permits us to be.

Concise and easy-to-follow, this introduction to the concept of subjectivity, and the theories surrounding it, shows that, in spite of the insecurity of selfhood, there is still much to be gained from the textual encounter with other selves. It is essential reading for all those studying 'autobiography' or 'autobiographical writing'.

About Dr Ruth Robbins

RUTH ROBBINS is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Literary Feminisms and Pater to Forster, 1873-1924, both also in the Palgrave Macmillan Transitions series.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Who Do You Think You Are?.- Pamela, Rousseau and Equiano: Trousseaux, Confessions and Tall Tales.- Two Romantic Egos: Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater.- Victorian Individualisms and its Limitations.- James Joyce and Self-Portraiture.- In Prison and in Chains: Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling.- Talking Proper: Class Acts in Carolyn Steedman and Alan Bennett.- China Women: Maxine Hong Kingston and Jung Chang.- The Sense of an Ending? Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness.- Glossary.- Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.

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NPB9780333752784
9780333752784
0333752783
Subjectivity by Dr Ruth Robbins
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2005-04-21
232
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