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

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770.
Author:	Gordon, Scott Paul.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.
Description:	293 p.
Subject:	English literature.
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ISBN:	9780511484254 (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: ��pring and Motive of our Actions�� disinterest and self-interest; CHAPTER 1 ��cted by Another�� agency and action in early modern England; CHAPTER 2 ��he belief of the people�� Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic; CHAPTER 3 ��or want of some heedfull Eye�� Mr. Spectator and the power of spectacle; CHAPTER 4 ��or its own sake�� virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England; CHAPTER 5 ��ot perform�� at all�� managing Garrick�� 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: 9780511484254 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

181224
English literature.
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214472
Electronic books.

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

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9353

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