About the Book: Subjectivity
Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores some of the
responses to this fundamental question. In readings of a number of
autobiographical texts from the last three centuries, Robbins offers an
approachable account of formations of the self which demonstrates that both
psychology and material conditions often in tension with one another are the
building blocks of modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include:
William Wordsworths Prelude
Thomas De Quinceys Confessions of an English Opium Eater
James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Oscar Wildes De Profundis
Jung Changs Wild