Who was William Hickey? [electronic resource] : a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India / James R. Farr.
- 作者： Farr, James Richard, 1950-
- 出版： New York, NY : Routledge 2020.
- 叢書名： Routledge studies in cultural history
- 主題： Hickey, William, 1749-1830. , Hickey, William, 1749-1830--Biography--History and criticism. , Autobiography--English authors. , Autobiographical memory. , Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century. , Individualism in literature. , Great Britain--History--1789-1820--Biography. , India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Biography.
- ISBN： 9780429318054 (ebk.) 、 9780367331191 (hbk.)
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- 一般註：Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: A crafted life : autobiography, memory, and identity in late Georgian England and Imperial India -- "The child is father of the man" -- "Dissipation and folly" : the young libertine -- Into the empire : India and Jamaica -- London again, then back to India -- A professional gentleman in Calcutta, and the return to "dear old England" -- Gentility -- Sensibility -- Masculinity -- Nationality. 111年度臺灣學術電子書暨資料庫聯盟採購
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"This book analyzes an example of life-writing, an autobiography that was written in the early nineteenth century and will appeal to readers of many disciplines who are interested in understanding the interconnectedness of memory, textual narrative, and ideas of selfhood. Moreover, this book reasserts the importance of the individual in history. It explains how personal narratives reveal the individual as a purposeful social actor pursuing particular objectives, but framed by cultural and social contexts, in this case by eighteenth-century London and Imperial India. The author of this autobiography, William Hickey, projects a sense of self formed by a combination of an interiorized self-consciousness (an awareness of himself as an autonomous individual, although not one prone to deep self-reflection) and a socially-turned self-fashioning. Like so many autobiographers of his time, Hickey's self is realized through the production of a narrative, his self fixed and defined through the act of writing. As he wrote his memoirs, Hickey was engaged in purposeful textual representation to satisfy his perceived sense of place in that culture (above all, as a gentleman) while tacitly reflecting the constraints of that culture imposed upon the form and content of the text"--