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The author charts the interaction between self and world through four major phases whereby the self initially has marginal status (the picaresque), begins to flourish and court recognition (Defoe, Marivaux, and Fielding), glows defiant and tries to impose its will on society and the other (Prevost, Richardson, Goethe, and Laclos), and finally makes



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Table of Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 3*The Marginal Self, pg. 19*Orphans, pg. 84*Collision, pg. 129*The Life as Book, pg. 200*Conclusion, pg. 252*Notes of Original Language, pg. 263*Index, pg. 301

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691615233, 978-0691615233
      ISBN10: 0691615233

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The author charts the interaction between self and world through four major phases whereby the self initially has marginal status (the picaresque), begins to flourish and court recognition (Defoe, Marivaux, and Fielding), glows defiant and tries to impose its will on society and the other (Prevost, Richardson, Goethe, and Laclos), and finally makes



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Table of Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 3*The Marginal Self, pg. 19*Orphans, pg. 84*Collision, pg. 129*The Life as Book, pg. 200*Conclusion, pg. 252*Notes of Original Language, pg. 263*Index, pg. 301

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