The making of the modern self : identity and culture in eighteenth-century England / Dror Wahrman.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2006.Description: xviii, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0300121393
- 9780300121391
- 22 126.094109033 WAH
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Originally published: 2004.
Index : p. 403-414.
Bibliography : p. 322-402.
Before the Self: The Ancien Régime identity and the revolution --
PartI : Snapshot: On queen bees and being queens: Varieties of gender in 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 -- Part II : 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.
Wahrman argues that toward the end of the 18th century there was a radical change in notions of self & personal identity - a sudden transformation that was a revolution in the understanding of selfhood & of identity categories including race, gender, & class.
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