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The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770.

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正題名/作者:	The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770./
作者:	Gordon, Scott Paul.
出版者:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2002.,
面頁冊數:	293 p.
標題:	English literature. -
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ISBN:	9780511029653 (electronic bk.)

The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770.
Gordon, Scott Paul.

The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002. - 293 p.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: “Spring and Motive of our Actions”: disinterest and self-interest; CHAPTER 1 “Acted by Another”: agency and action in early modern England; CHAPTER 2 “The belief of the people”: Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic; CHAPTER 3 “For want of some heedfull Eye”: Mr. Spectator and the power of spectacle; CHAPTER 4 “For its own sake”: virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England; CHAPTER 5 “Not perform’d at all”: managing Garrick’s body in eighteenth-century England

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.

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ISBN: 9780511029653 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9353

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