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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.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Plný název: Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770
• Autor: Scott Paul Gordon
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 292
• EAN: 9780521021845
• ISBN: 0521021847
• ID: 02018249
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 463 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Datum vydání: 03. November 2005

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