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The Romantic Subject in Autobiography Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe Rousseau and Goethe

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Although the literature of modern subjectivity has its sources in the Renaissance and manifests itself in texts as early as Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's Hamlet, autobiography as we know it is one of the significant developments of the later eighteenth century. Indeed, the rise of writing about the self is an important indicator of the transition from the culture of ...more
Hardcover , 279 pages
Published October 22nd 2000 by University of Virginia Press (first published October 2000)
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