The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 /
"Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively...
| Основен автор: | Gordon, Scott Paul, 1965- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Print version::
Power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction. "Spring and motive of our actions": disinterest and self-interest
- "Acted by another": agency and action in early modern England
- "The belief of the people": Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic
- "For want of some heedfull eye": Mr. Spectator and the power of spectacle
- "For its own sake": virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England
- "Not perform'd at all": managing Garrick's body in eighteenth-century England
- "I wrote my heart": Richardson's Clarissa and the tactics of sentiment
- Epilogue: "A sign of so noble a passion": the politics of disinterested selves.