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Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity book cover

1st Edition

Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity

By Christopher Borsing Copyright 2017
202 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge
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The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like many of this age, had religious difficulties with Locke’s empiricist analysis of human identity.... Read more

Introduction

1. ‘The True-Born Englishman’: The Construction of a Persona

2. The Family Instructor: One-sided dialogue

3. Robinson Crusoe: Spoken by an Other

4. Captain Singleton: Incommensurable Exchanges

5. Questionable Identities: Moll Flanders and Roxana

6. Not Imaginary but Fictitious: Defoe and the Apparitions of Fiction

Biography

Christopher Borsing teaches in the School of English, TCD and in the Open Education Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland. After a varied career as building labourer, kitchen porter, itinerant fruit picker, Tarot card reader, jobbing gardener and professional salesman of educational resources, he entered higher education in 2003 as a mature student at Trinity College Dublin where he was elected a Scholar, awarded a first-class degree in English Studies and conferred with his PhD.

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