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

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

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521021847
ISBN13: 9780521021845
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 3 2005
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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