Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures / David Warren Sabean, Malina Stefanovska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabean, David Warren, editor.

Stefanovska, Malina, editor.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self--Europe--History--17th century.

Self.

Self--Europe--History--18th century.

Space--Social aspects--Europe--History--17th century.

Space.

Space--Social aspects--Europe--History--18th century.

Self in literature.

Self-perception in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The notion of 'selfhood' conjures up images of self-sufficiency, integrity, introspectiveness, and autonomy - characteristics typically associated with 'modernity.' The seventeenth century marks the crucial transition to a new form of 'bourgeois' selfhood, although the concept goes back to the pre-modern and early modern period. A richly interdisciplinary collection, Space and Self integrates perspectives from history, history of literature, and history of art to link the issue of selfhood to the new and vital literature on space.As Space and Self shows, there have at all times been multiple paths and alternative possibilities for forming identities, marking personhood, and experiencing life as a concrete, singular individual. Positioning self and space as specific and evolving constructs, a diverse group of contributors explore how persons become embodied in particular places or inscribed in concrete space. Space and Self thus sets the terms for current discussion of these topics and provides new approaches to studying their cultural specificity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Sabean, David Warren / Stefanovska, Malina

PART I. HABITAT AND HABITUS

1. At the Study: Notes on the Production of the Scholarly Self / Algazi, Gadi

2. From Pictor Philosophus to Homo Oeconomicus: Renegotiating Social Space in Poussin's Self-Portrait of 1649-1650 / Packwood, David

3. The Scholar at Work: Habitus and the Identity of the 'Learned' in Eighteenth-Century France / Vila, Anne C.

4. The Eccentric Centre: Selfhood and Sociability at the Heart of England's Culture of Enlightenment Print / Shields, David S.

5. Theatrical Identities and Political Allegories: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the Household of Cardinal Richelieu (1635-1643) / Blocker, Déborah

6. Noble Selfhood and the Nature Poetry of Saint-Amant / Taormina, Michael

PART II. PLOTTING THE BODY: TRAJECTORIES AND PROJECTIONS

7. Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the 'Inner Self' in Seventeenth-Century France and England / Dimit, Robert

8. Nicole and Hobbes: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions / Koch, Erec R.

9. Loci Theologici: Authority, the Fall, and the Theology of the Puritan Self / Gabriel, Frédéric

10. Exile in the Reformation / Wandel, Lee Palmer

11. Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream Narratives / Bähr, Andreas

12. Cartography and the Melancholic Self / Wild, Christopher

13. Ingénieurs du Roy, Ingénieur du Moy: Self and Space in Montaigne and Descartes / Conley, Tom

PART III. NEW DIMENSIONS: INTERSTICES AND INTENSITIES

14. A Taste for the Interstitial: Translating Space from Beijing to London in the 1720s / Batchelor, Robert

15. Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's 'Outer Selves' and the Body without Organs / Antoine, Jean-Philippe

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

"Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9781442698215

1442698217

OCLC:

811964390