![]() | The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans Subjects: Literature Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Literature Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Self in literature; 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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