Secret Selves
Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett, who was a world authority on Romanticism, presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner…
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Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett, who was a world authority on Romanticism, presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves - and how we have created and written about them - from the Old Testament to social media.What he finds is that although our secret, inner, sense of self - what we feel makes us distinctively 'us' - seems a natural and permanent part of being human, it is in fact surprisingly new. Whilst confessional religious writings and novels, from Augustine to Jane Austen, or even diaries of 20th-century Holocaust victims, have explored inwards as part of a path to self-discovery, as our knowledge of history, other cultures, the world and the cosmos has developed, our inner space has expanded far beyond any possible personal experience. This development has enhanced our capacity not merely
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