Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem

by Jennifer L. Fleissner

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An examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will.

What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity rests on the ideal of the autonomous subject, charting a path toward self-determination. Yet novelists have portrayed the will as prone to insufficiency or excess--from indecision to obsession,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226822028

ISBN13:9780226822020

Release Date:December 2022

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:512 Pages

Weight:1.49 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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