Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures
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Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures

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

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Table of contents

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