Examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a different typology of Renaissance selfhood. This book also ... » 

Examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a different typology of Renaissance selfhood. This book also stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. It is of interest to students of history. «