The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770
Scott Paul (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania) Gordon
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521021845
- ISBN-10
- 0521021847
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Publication date
- 2005-11-03
- Pages
- 292
- Dimensions
- 229x152x18
- Weight
- 463