Scott Paul Gordon, Gordon Scott Paul

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780521021845
• ISBN-10: 0521021847
• Artikelnr.: 21136952

Autorenporträt

Scott Paul Gordon is an Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. He has published numerous articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century subjects.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'spring and motive of our actions', disinterest and self-interest
1. 'Acted by another': agency and action in early modern England
2. 'The belief of the people': Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic
3. 'For want of some heedfull Eye': Mr Spectator and the power of spectacle
4. 'For its own sake': virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England
5. 'Not perform'd at all': managing Garrick's body in eighteenth-century England
6. 'I wrote my heart': Richardson's Clarissa and the tactics of sentiment
Epilogue: 'A sign of so noble a passion': the politics of disinterested selves
Bibliography.