{"product_id":"the-power-of-the-passive-self-in-english-literature-1640-1770-0521810051","title":"The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521810051\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gordon, Scott Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51940603167008,"sku":"NEW0521810051","price":155.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-power-of-the-passive-self-in-english-literature-1640-1770-0521810051","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}