03925nam 2200649 a 450 991045195520332120210527204155.01-281-73471-397866117347180-300-13459-210.12987/9780300134599(CKB)1000000000473641(StDuBDS)AH23049802(SSID)ssj0000196020(PQKBManifestationID)11937302(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196020(PQKBWorkID)10141601(PQKB)11016764(MiAaPQ)EBC3420326(DE-B1597)485054(OCoLC)952735280(DE-B1597)9780300134599(Au-PeEL)EBL3420326(CaPaEBR)ebr10210209(CaONFJC)MIL173471(OCoLC)923592253(EXLCZ)99100000000047364120040123d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe making of the modern self[electronic resource] identity and culture in eighteenth-century England /Dror WahrmanNew Haven Yale University Pressc20041 online resource (xviii, 414 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-10251-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Preface: Before the Self: The Ancient Régime of Identity and the Revolution --Snapshot: On Queen Bees and Being Queens --Chapter 1. Varieties of Gender in Eighteenth-Century England --Chapter 2. Gender Identities and the Limits of Cultural History --Chapter 3. Climate, Civilization, and Complexion: Varieties of Race --Wide-Angle Lens: Gender, Race, Class, and Other Animals --Bird's-Eye View: The Eighteenth-Century Masquerade --Chapter 4. The Ancient Régime of Identity --Chapter 5. Religion, Commerce, and Empire: Enabling Contexts of Identity's Ancient Régime --Chapter 6. The Ancient Régime and the Revolution --Chapter 7. The Modern Regime of Selfhood --The Panoramic View: Making an Example of the French --Notes --IndexToward 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 ancient 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.Identity (Psychology)Great BritainHistory18th centurySelf (Philosophy)Great BritainHistory18th centuryGreat BritainCivilization18th centuryElectronic books.Identity (Psychology)HistorySelf (Philosophy)History126/.0941/09033Wahrman Dror552696MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451955203321The making of the modern self2487518UNINA$35.70Hist