Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures

David Sabean is the Henry J. Bruman Endowed Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles.Malina Stefanovska is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Warren Sabean and Malina StefanovskaPART I  Habitat and Habitus1. At the Study: Notes on the Production of the Scholarly SelfGadi Algazi2. From Pictor Philosophus to Homo Oeconomicus: Renegotiating Social Space in Poussin's Self-Portrait of 1649-50David Packwood3. The Scholar at Work: Habitus and the Identity of the ‘Learned’ in Eighteenth-Century FranceAnne C. Vila4. The Eccentric Center: Selfhood and Sociability at the Heart of England's Culture of Enlightenment PrintDavid S. Shields5. Theatrical Identities and Political Allegories: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the Household of Cardinal Richelieu (1635–43)DÉborah Blocker6. Michael Taormina, Noble Selfhood and the Nature Poetry of Saint-AmantPART II  Plotting the Body: Trajectories and Projections7. Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the ‘Inner Self’ in Seventeenth-Century France and EnglandRobert Dimit8. Nicole and Hobbes: Materiality, Motion, and the PassionsErec Koch9. Loci Theologici: Authority, the Fall, and the Theology of the Puritan SelfFrÉdÉric Gabriel10. Exile in the ReformationLee Palmer Wandel11. Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream NarrativesAndreas BÄhr12. Cartography and the Melancholic SelfChristopher Wild13. IngÉnieurs du Roy, IngÉnieur du Moy: Self and Space in Montaigne and DescartesTom ConleyPART III  New Dimensions: Interstices and Intensities14. A Taste for the Interstitial: Translating Space from Beijing to London in the 1720sRobert Batchelor15. Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's Outer Selves and the Body without OrgansJean-Philippe AntoineContributorsIndex

‘Historians are invited to try out and test the fascinating questions raised in this volume…. Scholars will benefit from a range of insights to be gleaned from this rich collection.’- Giora Sternberg (The Journal of Modern History vol 87:03:2015)