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SOCIAL SELF: HAWTHORNE, HOWELLS, WILLIAM JAMES, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY PSYCHOLOGY (INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES) Hardcover - 1996
by Alkana, Joseph
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- Title SOCIAL SELF: HAWTHORNE, HOWELLS, WILLIAM JAMES, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY PSYCHOLOGY (INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES)
- Author Alkana, Joseph
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press Of Kentucky
- Date 1996
- Bookseller's Inventory # 186442
- ISBN 9780813119717 / 0813119715
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.23 x 0.69 in (23.44 x 15.82 x 1.75 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Self in literature, American fiction - 19th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-16404
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.309
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The Social Self reinterprets in an innovative way a central feature of nineteenth-century American culture: the literary representation of selfhood. Taking issue with literary histories that have routinely reduced nineteenth-century culture to simple dichotomies between dominant and oppositional discourses, Joseph Alkana argues that writers such as Hawthorne, Howells, and William James treated ideas about the self with far more complexity than such polarities imply. By showing how these and other nineteenth-century authors handled competing commitments to sociality and the individual consciousness, The Social Self offers an original and provocative reassessment of a fundamental American literary preoccupation and radically revises traditional and recent narratives of American literary culture.
