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  • The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770
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    Title/Author: The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770/ Scott Paul Gordon.
    Author: Gordon, Scott Paul,
    Published: Cambridge, UK ;Cambridge University Press, : 2002.,
    Description: xi, 279 p. ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: Introduction. "Spring and motive of our actions": disinterest and self-interest -- "Acted by another": agency and action in early modern England -- "The belief of the people": Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic -- "For want of some heedfull eye": Mr. Spectator and the power of spectacle -- "For its own sake": virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England -- "Not perform'd at all": managing Garrick's body in eighteenth-century England -- "I wrote my heart": Richardson's Clarissa and the tactics of sentiment -- Epilogue: "A sign of so noble a passion": the politics of disinterested selves.
    Subject: Christianity and literature - History - 17th century. - Great Britain -
    Online resource: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=112631An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    ISBN: 0511042124 (electronic bk.)
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