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The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770 Gordon, Scott Paul (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania)
The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770
Gordon, Scott Paul (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania)
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.
290 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 28, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521810050 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 292 |
| Dimensions | 159 × 236 × 21 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |