Nicholas D Paige. Being Interior: A...

Nicholas D Paige. Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P 2001 304 pp ISBN 0-812-23577-0 $5500

Being Interior is ambitious, erudite, and elegant: the compass of Nicholas D. Paige's readings in the theoretical issues of modernity, subjectivity, sex and (auto)biography is such that his discussion of the figure of speech of interiority links together many of the greatest in quantity interesting debates in seventeenth-century cultural studies. Paige's approach is largely, although not uncritically, Foucaldian: