Scott Paul Gordon

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines passivity, and disinterestedness, in English writing during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780521810050
• ISBN-10: 0521810051
• Artikelnr.: 35450327

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.