By Regenia Gagnier
This comparative research attracts on working-class autobiography, public and boarding college memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by way of men and women within the uk to outline subjectivity and cost inside of social classification and gender in 19th- and early twentieth-century Britain. Gagnier reconsiders conventional differences among brain and physique, inner most hope and public reliable, aesthetics and application, and truth and cost within the context of lifestyle.
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2, Ch. 27, Sec. 18). Here Locke comes close to what Jaggar calls "universal egoism," or "rational" self-interest. In his Second Treatise of Government (1690), Locke defines the body as the original property ("Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person" [Ch. 5, Sec. 27, p. 15)), which is in turn denned by its capacity to labor in the service of the mind's desires for happiness ("the labor of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his" [Ch.
Situating Subjectivities A comparative study of Victorian autobiography across social class and gender will situate precisely in contrast to other subjectivities what I call the modern literary subject: a mixture of introspective self-reflexivity, middle-class familialism and genderization, and liberal autonomy. In the first section of this chapter I shall propose a literary method for exploring other possibilities of autonomy and relatedness, or participation and antagonism, and redefine autobiographies as rhetorical projects embedded in concrete material situations.
The mind commands the body), so, for Locke, the State, the collective self, commands the consent of the bodies within its domain: ".. for it would be a direct contradiction for any one to enter into society with others for the securing and regulating of property, and yet to suppose his land, whose property is to be regulated by the laws of the society should be exempt from the jurisdiction of that government. . They become, both of them person and possession, subject to the government and dominions of that commonwealth" (Ch.