{"product_id":"the-power-of-the-passive-self-in-english-literature-1640-1770-9780521021845","title":"The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640 1770","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Scott Paul Gordon | Gordon Scott Paul\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging recent work contending that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, this study recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas of passivity from their roots in the non-conformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47589478039703,"sku":"9780521021845","price":4359.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521021845.webp?v=1774968996","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-power-of-the-passive-self-in-english-literature-1640-1770-9780521021845","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}