Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures / / ed. by David Warren Sabean, Malina Stefanovska.

• MitwirkendeR: Algazi, Gadi,; Antoine, Jean-Philippe,; Batchelor, Robert,; Blocker, Déborah,; Bähr, Andreas,; Conley, Tom,; Dimit, Robert,; Gabriel, Frédéric,; Koch, Erec R.,; Packwood, David,; Sabean, David Warren,; Shields, David S.,; Stefanovska, Malina,; Taormina, Michael,; Vila, Anne C.,; Wandel, Lee Palmer,; Wild, Christopher,
• HerausgeberIn: Sabean, David Warren,; Stefanovska, Malina,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

The notion of 'selfhood' conjures up images of self-sufficiency, integrity, introspectiveness, and autonomy - characteristics typically associated with 'modernity.' The seventeenth century marks the crucial transition to a new form of 'bourgeois' selfhood, although the concept goes back to the pre-modern and early modern period. A richly interdisciplinary collection, Space and Self integrates perspectives from history, history of literature, and history of art to link the issue of selfhood to the new and vital literature on space.As Space and Self shows, there have at all times been multiple paths and alternative possibilities for forming identities, marking personhood, and experiencing life as a concrete, singular individual. Positioning self and space as specific and evolving constructs, a diverse group of contributors explore how persons become embodied in particular places or inscribed in concrete space. Space and Self thus sets the terms for current discussion of these topics and provides new approaches to studying their cultural specificity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. HABITAT AND HABITUS -- 1. At the Study: Notes on the Production of the Scholarly Self -- 2. From Pictor Philosophus to Homo Oeconomicus: Renegotiating Social Space in Poussin's Self-Portrait of 1649-1650 -- 3. The Scholar at Work: Habitus and the Identity of the 'Learned' in Eighteenth-Century France -- 4. The Eccentric Centre: Selfhood and Sociability at the Heart of England's Culture of Enlightenment Print -- 5. Theatrical Identities and Political Allegories: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the Household of Cardinal Richelieu (1635-1643) -- 6. Noble Selfhood and the Nature Poetry of Saint-Amant -- PART II. PLOTTING THE BODY: TRAJECTORIES AND PROJECTIONS -- 7. Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the 'Inner Self' in Seventeenth-Century France and England -- 8. Nicole and Hobbes: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions -- 9. Loci Theologici: Authority, the Fall, and the Theology of the Puritan Self -- 10. Exile in the Reformation -- 11. Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream Narratives -- 12. Cartography and the Melancholic Self -- 13. Ingénieurs du Roy, Ingénieur du Moy: Self and Space in Montaigne and Descartes -- PART III. NEW DIMENSIONS: INTERSTICES AND INTENSITIES -- 14. A Taste for the Interstitial: Translating Space from Beijing to London in the 1720s -- 15. Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's 'Outer Selves' and the Body without Organs -- Contributors -- Index