Making of the Modern Self Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England

Name: Making of the Modern Self Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
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ISBN: 9780300121391

ISBN-10: 0300121393

ISBN-13: 9780300121391

Edition: 2007

Authors: Dror Wahrman

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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 pathbreaking book, he offers a fundamentally new interpretation of this critical turning point in Western history. Wahrman demonstrates this transformation with a fascinating variety of cultural evidence from eighteenth-century England, from theater to beekeeping, fashion to philosophy, art to travel and translations of the classics. He discusses notions of self in the earlier 1700s—what he terms…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.77" wide x 9.13" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English