01345nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_167359 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 121 820.9353 G665 Gordon, Scott Paul The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 Scott Paul Gordon Cambridge, UK,New York Cambridge University Press 2002 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 English literature,Passivity (Psychology) in literature,Ethics in literature,Christianity and literature,Văn học Anh,Đạo đức trong văn học,Văn học Thiên chúa giáo History and criticism,lịch sử và phê bình 18th century,thế kỷ 18 Nguyên Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ