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Who was William Hickey?a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Who was William Hickey?James R. Farr.
Reminder of title:	a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India /
Author:	Farr, James Richard,
Published:	New York, NY :Routledge,2020.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 227 p.)
Subject:	AutobiographyEnglish authors.
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429318054
ISBN:	9780429318054 (ebk.)

Who was William Hickey?a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India /
Farr, James Richard,1950-

Who was William Hickey?a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India /[electronic resource] :James R. Farr. - New York, NY :Routledge,2020. - 1 online resource (x, 227 p.) - Routledge studies in cultural history.

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.

"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"--

ISBN: 9780429318054 (ebk.)

LCCN: 2019031454Subjects--Personal Names:

927671
Hickey, William,
1749-1830.Memoirs of William Hickey.Subjects--Topical Terms:

927673
Autobiography
--English authors.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.

LC Class. No.: CT788.H5 / F37 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 941.07/3092

Who was William Hickey?a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India /
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