The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770
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The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-272) and index
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内容説明
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. This tradition - which Scott Paul Gordon locates in seventeenth-century religious discourse, in early eighteenth-century moral philosophy, in mid eighteenth-century acting theory, and in the emergent novel - resists autonomy and defers agency from the individual to an external 'prompter'. Gordon argues that the trope of passivity aims to guarantee a disinterested self in a culture that was increasingly convinced that every deliberate action involves calculating one's own interest. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas 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.
目次
- 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.
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