| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This was a sudden transformation, says Dror Wahrman, and nothing short of a revolution in the understanding of selfhood and of identity categories including race, gender, and class. In this pathbreaking book, he offers a fundamentally new interpretation of this critical turning point in Western history. Wahrman demonstrates this transformation with a fascinating variety of cultural evidence from eighteenth-century England, from theater to beekeeping, fashion to philosophy, art to travel and translations of the classics. He discusses notions of self in the earlier 1700s -- what he terms the ancien régime of identity -- that seem bizarre, even incomprehensible, to present-day readers. He then examines how this peculiar world came to an abrupt end, and the far-reaching consequences of that change. This unrecognized cultural revolution, the author argues, set the scene for the array of new departures that signaled the onset of Western modernity. Dror Wahrman is associate professor of history at Indiana University (Bloomington) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Identity (Psychology) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Self (Philosophy) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Civilization
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Identity (Psychology)
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Self (Philosophy)
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Cultuur.
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Identiteit.
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Zelf.
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Zelfbeeld.
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Jaźń -- psychologia.
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Świadomość -- psychologia.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056624
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Wielka Brytania -- kultura -- 18 w.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004001544 |
| ISBN |
9780300134599 |
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0300134592 |
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1281734713 |
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9781281734716 |
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