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

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Gordon, Scott Paul, 1965-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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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 nonconformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index.
ISBN:0511042124
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