The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521810050)

Challenging recent work contending that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, this study recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas of passivity 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.

Author: Scott Paul Gordon
ISBN-10: 0521810051
ISBN-13: 9780521810050
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/29/2002
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d