The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans

by Frederick Garber

Book Overview

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 this period is characterized by a pervasive dialectic of aloofness and association.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691614571
• ISBN13: 9780691614571
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"