The making of the modern self : identity and culture in eighteenth-century England /
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This was a sudden transformation, says Dror Wahrman, and nothing short of a revolution in the understanding of selfhood and of identity categories including race, gender, and class. In this...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Snapshot: on queen bees and being queens
- Varieties of gender in the eighteenth-century England
- Gender identities and the limits of cultural history
- Climate, civilization and complexion : varieties of race
- Wide-angle lens : gender, race, class, and other animals
- Bird's-eye view : the eighteenth-century masquerade
- The ancien régime of identity
- Religion, commerce and empire : enabling contexts of identity's ancien régime
- The ancien régime and the revolution
- The modern regime of selfhood
- The panoramic view : making an example of the French.