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