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

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

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

xviii, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

941.07 W137 2004

(OCoLC)54111546

Voyage through English culture in pursuit of the historical origins of modern concepts of identity and self. Wahrman demonstrates their transformation with a variety of cultural evidence from eighteenth-century England, from theater to beekeeping, fashion to philosophy, art to travel and translations of the classics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-402) and index.
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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