Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
Av Scott Paul Gordon, Pennsylvania) Gordon, Scott Paul (Lehigh University, Gordon Scott Paul
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2005-11-03
- Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
- Vikt463 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor292
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9780521021845
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