Persona, elegy, and desire. From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Mounsey, Chris | COPYRIGHT 2006 Rice University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The past few years have witnessed a steady but distinct shift in eighteenth-century literary studies away from theories of identity based on Continental philosophies of language. The terminologies of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas are still employed, and the lessons they have taught us about the complexities of identity, albeit of the historical subject, the author, or the reader, are not forgotten. However, to accept the absolute indeterminacy...

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