The making of the modern self :
Wahrman, Dror.
The making of the modern self : identity and culture in eighteenth-century England / Dror Wahrman. - New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2006. - xviii, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Originally published: 2004. Index : p. 403-414.
Bibliography : p. 322-402.
Before the Self: The Ancien Régime identity and the revolution --
PartI : Snapshot: On queen bees and being queens: Varieties of gender in 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 -- Part II : 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.
Wahrman argues that toward the end of the 18th century there was a radical change in notions of self & personal identity - a sudden transformation that was a revolution in the understanding of selfhood & of identity categories including race, gender, & class.
0300121393 9780300121391
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Identity (Psychology)--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Self (Philosophy)--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
126.094109033 / WAH
The making of the modern self : identity and culture in eighteenth-century England / Dror Wahrman. - New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2006. - xviii, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Originally published: 2004. Index : p. 403-414.
Bibliography : p. 322-402.
Before the Self: The Ancien Régime identity and the revolution --
PartI : Snapshot: On queen bees and being queens: Varieties of gender in 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 -- Part II : 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.
Wahrman argues that toward the end of the 18th century there was a radical change in notions of self & personal identity - a sudden transformation that was a revolution in the understanding of selfhood & of identity categories including race, gender, & class.
0300121393 9780300121391
2004001544
Identity (Psychology)--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Self (Philosophy)--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
126.094109033 / WAH