Introduction
The written self - John Baker and Marion Leclair

Part I Early modern selves and the Reason v. Passion debate
1. Anne Killigrew, a spiritual wit - Laura Alexander
2. Charitable though passionate creature: the portrait of Man in late seventeenth-century sermons - Regina Maria Dal Santo
3. Self-love in Mandeville and Hutcheson - Jeffrey Hopes
4. Fashioning fictional selves from French sources: Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess - Orla Smyth
5. The death of Cordelia and the economics of preference in eighteenth-century moral psychology - William Flesch

Part II Self-exploration in the Age of Reason: division and continuity
6. 'Chaos dark and deep': grotesque selves and self-fashioning in Pope's Dunciad - Clark Lawlor
7. In two minds: Johnson, Boswell and representations of the self - Allan Ingram
8. 'The Place where my present hopes began to dawn': space, limitation and the perception of female selfhood in Samuel Richardson's Pamela - Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz
9. The discursive construction of the self in Shaftesbury and Sterne: Tristram Shandy and the quest for identity - Gioiella Bruni Roccia

Part III Romantic wanderings: the self in search of (its) place
10. The anxiety of the self and the exile of the soul in Blake and Wordsworth - Laura Quinney
11. Transgressing the boundaries of reason: Burke's poetic (Miltonic) reading of the sublime - Eva Antal
12. Self and community in radical defence in the French revolutionary era: the example of Oppression!!! The Appeal of Captain Perry to the People of England (1795) - Rachel Rogers

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Index