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The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 // Scott Paul Gordon.
作者:	Gordon, Scott Paul,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Self in literature. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484254
ISBN:	9780511484254 (ebook)

The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 /
Gordon, Scott Paul,1965-

The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 /Scott Paul Gordon. - 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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 choosing. This tradition - which Scott Paul Gordon locates in seventeenth-century religious discourse, in early eighteenth-century moral philosophy, in mid eighteenth-century acting theory, and in the emergent novel - resists autonomy and defers agency from the individual to an external 'prompter'. Gordon argues that the trope of passivity aims to guarantee a disinterested self in a culture that was increasingly convinced that every deliberate action involves calculating one's own interest. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas from their roots in the non-conformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.

ISBN: 9780511484254 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570421
Self in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR448.P28 / G67 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/353

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