Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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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

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