You might also like

More about Being Interior

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 175 loyalty points

Book synopsis

The familiar classical France of splendor, formalism, and conquest had a hidden double, one ruled by the cultural imperative to "be interior," to look inside oneself and to write about what one found. Being Interior explores how seventeenth-century readers and writers busied themselves with the pressing task of inventing a text commensurate with these newly opened subjective depths. Their practices laid the groundwork not only for the future success of autobiography as a genre but also for our entire modern culture of interiority. In tracing the emergence of autobiography as a privileged mediation between interior and exterior worlds, Nicholas D. Paige turns his attention where few have looked: to the wealth of material contained in religious writing of the period, much of it by women. Combining the evidence furnished by the material transmission of these works with a theoretical understanding of the contradictions built into subjectivity, Paige explains why categories like autobiography and experience, despite their problematic nature, have become unavoidable components of the modern world. Being Interior speaks not only to specialists of autobiography and classical France but also to readers interested in the constructions of gender and authorship, the history of private life and reading practices, and the past and future of interiorized subjectivity.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Being Interior
• Author: Nicholas D. Paige
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780812235777
• ISBN: 0812235770
• ID: 04723784
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Weight: 639 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. December 2000

Trending among others

---

---

---