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

Challenging recent work contending that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, this study recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas of passivity from their roots in the non-conformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Scott Paul Gordon
Dimensions:	236 x 159 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-81005-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
LSN:	0-521-81005-1
Barcode:	9780521810050

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