This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of the self needs to attend more to its class dimensions, and puts this insight into practice by examining the influence of the criminal courts in spreading and negotiating changing ideas of the self. Using criminal interrogations and witness statements,
Trials of the self shows that an increasing stress on psychological depth in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was not only important for elites, but also for common and illiterate people – sometimes even more so.
Trials of the self shows that an increasing stress on psychological depth in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was not only important for elites, but also for common and illiterate people – sometimes even more so.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
How to do the history of the self: an introduction 1 The self in court: procedures of conscience and confession 2 Making reasonable selves: self-defence, honour and philosophical suicide 3 Losing your self: magic, madness and other ways of losing control 4 The tears of a killer: practicing sentimentalism and romanticism in criminal court 5 The ambiguities of nature: self-talk as a challenge and as an opportunity Conclusion: fragments of a history of the self IndexÜber den Autor
William G. Naphy is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of Department at the University of AberdeenDieses Ebook kaufen – und ein weitere GRATIS erhalten!
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 248 ● ISBN 9781526153135 ● Dateigröße 0.6 MB ● Alter 22-99 Jahre ● Verlag Manchester University Press ● Ort Manchester ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2021 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7818956 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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