TY - GEN T1 - Impossible Individuality : Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802. A1 - Izenberg, Gerald N. LA - English PP - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2001 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn700688628 AB - Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a combination of political, social, and psychological developments resulted in the modern concept of selfhood. More than a study of one national culture influencing another, this work goes to the heart of kindred intellectual processes in three European countries. Izenberg makes two persuasive and related arguments. The first is that the Romantics developed a new idea of the self as characterized by fundamentally opposing impulses: a dri. OP - 367 CN - PN751.I94 1992 SN - 9781400820665 SN - 1400820669 SN - 9780691069265 KW - Self in literature. KW - Romanticism. KW - Literature and revolutions. KW - Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. KW - Romantisme. KW - Littérature et révolutions. KW - romanticism (form of expression) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - Literature and revolutions KW - Romanticism KW - Self in literature KW - Electronic book. ER -