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 choosi...

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1. Verfasser:	Gordon, Scott Paul 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte 1600-1700 Geschichte 1640-1770 Geschichte English literature / 18th century / History and criticism Passivity (Psychology) in literature English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism Christianity and literature / Great Britain / History / 18th century Christianity and literature / Great Britain / History / 17th century Ethics in literature Self in literature Protestantismus Literatur Individuum Englisch Passivität Großbritannien
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
ISBN:	9780511484254
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511484254