Histories from the renaissance to the present Renaissance and early modern: Representations of the self rom Petrarch to Descartes; Self and selfhood in the seventeenth century; Self-reflection and the self Enlightenment: Religious experience and the formation of the early enlightenment self; The european enlightenment and the history of the self; The death and rebirth of character in the eighteenth century; Anogher self in the case: Gender, marraige and the individual in augustan literature; Feelings and novels Romanticism: Romantic travel; As a rule, I does not mean I: Personal identity and the victorian woman poet; Mapping the self: gender, space and modernity in mid-victorian London; Stories of the eye Modern and postmodern: The modern auditoryI; Assembling the modern self; Death and the self; Self-undoing subjects