The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature

An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.

Inhalt
Introduction - Dissolving Self - Self at War - Self-Deception and Self-Conflict - Fragmented Self - Discontinuous Self - Conclusion - Notes - Index