04242nam 22007692 450 991080873170332120151005020621.01-107-12505-70-511-04212-41-280-15955-30-511-12007-90-511-15703-70-511-32949-00-511-48425-90-511-04495-X(CKB)1000000000006292(EBL)202102(OCoLC)475916781(SSID)ssj0000225399(PQKBManifestationID)11203110(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225399(PQKBWorkID)10230337(PQKB)11028156(UkCbUP)CR9780511484254(MiAaPQ)EBC202102(Au-PeEL)EBL202102(CaPaEBR)ebr10014594(CaONFJC)MIL15955(EXLCZ)99100000000000629220090224d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 /Scott Paul Gordon1st ed.Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02184-7 0-521-81005-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-272) and index.Introduction. "Spring and motive of our actions": disinterest and self-interest -- "Acted by another": agency and action in early modern England -- "The belief of the people": Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic -- "For want of some heedfull eye": Mr. Spectator and the power of spectacle -- "For its own sake": virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England -- "Not perform'd at all": managing Garrick's body in eighteenth-century England -- "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.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.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismPassivity (Psychology) in literatureEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismChristianity and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryChristianity and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryEthics in literatureSelf in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Passivity (Psychology) in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Christianity and literatureHistoryChristianity and literatureHistoryEthics in literature.Self in literature.820.9/353Gordon Scott Paul1965-1666295UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910808731703321The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-17704025483UNINA