LEADER 04244nam 22007572 450 001 9910450284003321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-12505-7 010 $a0-511-04212-4 010 $a1-280-15955-3 010 $a0-511-12007-9 010 $a0-511-15703-7 010 $a0-511-32949-0 010 $a0-511-48425-9 010 $a0-511-04495-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006292 035 $a(EBL)202102 035 $a(OCoLC)475916781 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000225399 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11203110 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225399 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230337 035 $a(PQKB)11028156 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202102 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202102 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014594 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15955 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006292 100 $a20090224d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 /$fScott Paul Gordon$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-02184-7 311 $a0-521-81005-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-272) and index. 327 $aIntroduction. "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. 330 $aChallenging 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPassivity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristianity and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aChristianity and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPassivity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a820.9/353 700 $aGordon$b Scott Paul$f1965-$01031845 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450284003321 996 $aThe power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770$92449367 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01544nam 2200397z- 450 001 9910689849303321 005 20161209104842.0 035 $a(CKB)5860000000021658 035 $a(BIP)012782057 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000021658 100 $a20220406c2005uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aEIA 2005 annual energy outlook $ehearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, to receive testimony regarding global energy trends and their potential impact on U.S. energy needs, security, and policy, February 3, 2005 215 $a1 online resource (iii, 101 p.) 311 $a0-16-074554-3 517 $aEIA 2005 annual energy outlook 606 $aPower resources$xForecasting 606 $aPower resources$zUnited States$xForecasting 606 $aEnergy consumption$zUnited States$xForecasting 606 $aEnergy development$zUnited States$xForecasting 606 $aEnergy policy$zUnited States 610 $aPower resources 610 $aEnergy consumption 610 $aEnergy development 610 $aEnergy policy 610 $aTechnology & engineering 610 $aPolitical science 615 0$aPower resources$xForecasting. 615 0$aPower resources$xForecasting. 615 0$aEnergy consumption$xForecasting. 615 0$aEnergy development$xForecasting. 615 0$aEnergy policy 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910689849303321 996 $aEIA 2005 annual energy outlook$93135926 997 $aUNINA