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The Making of the Modern Self - Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Making of the Modern Self - Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, New Ed)
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Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred
in notions of self and personal identity. This was a sudden
transformation, says Dror Wahrman, and nothing short of a
revolution in the understanding of selfhood and of identity
categories including race, gender, and class. In this pathbreaking
book, he offers a fundamentally new interpretation of this critical
turning point in Western history.
Wahrman demonstrates this transformation with a fascinating variety
of cultural evidence from eighteenth-century England, from theater
to beekeeping, fashion to philosophy, art to travel and
translations of the classics. He discusses notions of self in the
earlier 1700s--what he terms the ancien regime of identity--that
seem bizarre, even incomprehensible, to present-day readers. He
then examines how this peculiar world came to an abrupt end, and
the far-reaching consequences of that change. This unrecognized
cultural revolution, the author argues, set the scene for the array
of new departures that signaled the onset of Western modernity.
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