LEADER 04244nam 22007572 450 001 9910808731703321 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-$01666295 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808731703321 996 $aThe power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770$94025483 997 $aUNINA