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.
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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. 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.
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Discussions of agency and autonomy, terms too infrequently distinguished, often share a common assumption: to be the agent of another, rather than a self-determining subject, is an undesirable, anxiety-ridden, and disempowered position. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
passivity trope, disinterested selves, herculean heroes, legible subjects, disinterested behavior, disinterested self, theatrical discourse, preventing grace, stage historians, disinterested action, acting theory, visionary women, worthy actions, heroic drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Roger, Civil War, John Hill, Caroline England, Aaron Hill, David Garrick, New England, Thomas Hooker, Gentleman's Magazine, Lady Bradshaigh, Abel Drugger, John Cotton, Richardson's Clarissa, Sacrifice of Interests, Theatrical Review, Barebones Parliament, Henry Fielding, Johnson's Dictionary, Anna Howe, Blair Worden, Colley Cibber, Counsell of State, Diderot's Paradoxe, Drury Lane, Henrietta Maria New!
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Discussions of agency and autonomy, terms too infrequently distinguished, often share a common assumption: to be the agent of another, rather than a self-determining subject, is an undesirable, anxiety-ridden, and disempowered position. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
passivity trope, disinterested selves, herculean heroes, legible subjects, disinterested behavior, disinterested self, theatrical discourse, preventing grace, stage historians, disinterested action, acting theory, visionary women, worthy actions, heroic drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Roger, Civil War, John Hill, Caroline England, Aaron Hill, David Garrick, New England, Thomas Hooker, Gentleman's Magazine, Lady Bradshaigh, Abel Drugger, John Cotton, Richardson's Clarissa, Sacrifice of Interests, Theatrical Review, Barebones Parliament, Henry Fielding, Johnson's Dictionary, Anna Howe, Blair Worden, Colley Cibber, Counsell of State, Diderot's Paradoxe, Drury Lane, Henrietta Maria New!
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- The Rhetoric of Leviathan by David Johnston on 4 pages
- Agency and Necessity by Antony & Godfrey N.A. Vesey Flew in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie on page 213, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England, 1688-1740 by Shelley Burtt in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick by Thomas Davies on page 156, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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