Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures

✍ Scribed by David Warren Sabean (editor); Malina Stefanovska (editor)

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 367
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Space and Self thus sets the terms for current discussion of these topics and provides new approaches to studying their cultural specificity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. HABITAT AND HABITUS
1. At the Study: Notes on the Production of the Scholarly Self
2. From Pictor Philosophus to Homo Oeconomicus: Renegotiating Social Space in Poussin’s Self-Portrait of 1649–1650
3. The Scholar at Work: Habitus and the Identity of the ‘Learned’ in Eighteenth-Century France
4. The Eccentric Centre: Selfhood and Sociability at the Heart of England’s Culture of Enlightenment Print
5. Theatrical Identities and Political Allegories: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the Household of Cardinal Richelieu (1635–1643)
6. Noble Selfhood and the Nature Poetry of Saint-Amant
PART II. PLOTTING THE BODY: TRAJECTORIES AND PROJECTIONS
7. Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the ‘Inner Self’ in Seventeenth-Century France and England
8. Nicole and Hobbes: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions
9. Loci Theologici: Authority, the Fall, and the Theology of the Puritan Self
10. Exile in the Reformation
11. Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream Narratives
12. Cartography and the Melancholic Self
13. Ingénieurs du Roy, Ingénieur du Moy: Self and Space in Montaigne and Descartes
PART III. NEW DIMENSIONS: INTERSTICES AND INTENSITIES
14. A Taste for the Interstitial: Translating Space from Beijing to London in the 1720s
15. Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann’s ‘Outer Selves’ and the Body without Organs
Contributors
Index

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