Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures

AvDavid Warren Sabean,Malina Stefanovska

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-09
Mått:160 x 237 x 32 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442643949

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David Sabean is the Henry J. Bruman Endowed Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles.Malina Stefanovska is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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‘Historians are invited to try out and test the fascinating questions raised in this volume…. Scholars will benefit from a range of insights to be gleaned from this rich collection.’- Giora Sternberg (The Journal of Modern History vol 87:03:2015)

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Warren Sabean and Malina StefanovskaPART I Habitat and Habitus1. At the Study: Notes on the Production of the Scholarly SelfGadi Algazi2. From Pictor Philosophus to Homo Oeconomicus: Renegotiating Social Space in Poussin's Self-Portrait of 1649-50David Packwood3. The Scholar at Work: Habitus and the Identity of the ‘Learned’ in Eighteenth-Century FranceAnne C. Vila4. The Eccentric Center: Selfhood and Sociability at the Heart of England's Culture of Enlightenment PrintDavid S. Shields5. Theatrical Identities and Political Allegories: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the Household of Cardinal Richelieu (1635–43)DÉborah Blocker6. Michael Taormina, Noble Selfhood and the Nature Poetry of Saint-AmantPART II Plotting the Body: Trajectories and Projections7. Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the ‘Inner Self’ in Seventeenth-Century France and EnglandRobert Dimit8. Nicole and Hobbes: Materiality, Motion, and the PassionsErec Koch9. Loci Theologici: Authority, the Fall, and the Theology of the Puritan SelfFrÉdÉric Gabriel10. Exile in the ReformationLee Palmer Wandel11. Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream NarrativesAndreas BÄhr12. Cartography and the Melancholic SelfChristopher Wild13. IngÉnieurs du Roy, IngÉnieur du Moy: Self and Space in Montaigne and DescartesTom ConleyPART III New Dimensions: Interstices and Intensities14. A Taste for the Interstitial: Translating Space from Beijing to London in the 1720sRobert Batchelor15. Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's Outer Selves and the Body without OrgansJean-Philippe AntoineContributorsIndex