Based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Eng., spring 1995.

Representations of the self from Petrarch to Descartes / Peter Burke -- Self and selfhood in the seventeenth century / Jonathan Sawday -- Self-reflection and the self / Roger Smith -- Religious experience and the formation of the early Englightenment self / Jane Shaw -- The European Enlightenment and the history of the self / E.J. Hundert -- The death and rebirth of character in the 18th century / Sylvana Tomaselli -- "Another self in case" : gender, marriage, and the individual in Augustan literature / Carolyn D. Williams -- Feelings and novels / John Mullan -- Romantic travel / Roger Cardinal -- " --As a rule, I does not mean I" : personal identity and the Victorian woman poet / Kate Flint -- Mapping the self : gender, space, and modernity in mid-Victorian London / Lynn Nead -- Stories of the eye / Daniel Pick -- The modern auditory I / Steven Connor -- Assembling the modern self / Nikolas Rose -- Death and the self / Jonathan Dollimore -- Self-undoing subjects / Terry Eagleton.