In Quest of the Self by Jakub Lipski

In Quest of the Self by Jakub Lipski

In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinities between the eighteenth century and our own time. In Quest of the Self offers a new consideration not only of the masquerade as such, but also of the ways in which it was transposed into literature during the period. Here it emerges as a dominant trope governing the poetics and the ideological dimensions of selected eighteenth-century novels by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the travelling protagonists of the novels, metaphorically speaking, take part in the ‘masquerade of the world’, finding themselves in quest of their own selves and struggling to determine who they really are.

Jakub Lipski is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz. His research concerns the eighteenth-century novel and culture, particularly the works of Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Ann Radcliffe, as well as the correspondences between word and image.

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ISBN 13	9789042038899
ISBN 10	9042038896
Title	In Quest of the Self
Author	Jakub Lipski
Series	Consciousness Literature And The Arts
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Brill
Year published	2014-01-01
Number of pages	223
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