Controlling Time and Shaping the Self.
Education, Introspection and Practices of Writing in the Netherlands
NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls
(© A. Baggerman, 2001)
Project leader
Dr. J.A. (Arianne) Baggerman
Summary
The key question of the project is to what extent and in what ways the specific contents and forms of egodocuments as well as the increase in their number in the long nineteenth century were related to the emergence of a new sense of temporality, both on an individual level (projects 1 and 2), through the medium of pedagogical intervention (project 1), and in the public sphere (project 3).
The traditional wisdom concerning the links between autobiographical writing, growing introspection and individualization will be questioned. In my view, while writing to control temporal experience, the nineteenth-century autobiographers inadvertently reflected on themselves and shaped their own individuality.
Contact details
Dr A. Baggerman
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Room L3-012
P.O. Box 1738
NL-3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone Work: +31 10 4088724
Phone Home: +31 78 6314505
baggerman@eshcc.eur.nl
NWO Councel Area
GW/Humanities
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Host Institution
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
