The making of the modern self : identity and culture in eighteenth-century England /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wahrman, Dror
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Identity (Psychology) > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Self (Philosophy) > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Identité (Psychologie) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Moi (Philosophie) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Civilization
Identity (Psychology)
Self (Philosophy)
Cultuur.
Identiteit.
Zelf.
Zelfbeeld.
Jaźń > psychologia.
Świadomość > psychologia.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 18e siècle.
Great Britain
Wielka Brytania > kultura > 18 w.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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