The making of the modern self
Subtitle: identity and culture in eighteenth-century England
By: Dror Wahrman.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780300102512
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Self (Philosophy) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Snapshot: on queen bees and being queens; title: Varieties of gender in the eighteenth-century England; title: Gender identities and the limits of cultural history; title: Climate, civilization and complexion : varieties of race; title: Wide-angle lens : gender, race, class, and other animals; title: Bird's-eye view : the eighteenth-century masquerade; title: The ancien régime of identity; title: Religion, commerce and empire : enabling contexts of identity's ancien régime; title: The ancien régime and the revolution; title: The modern regime of selfhood; title: The panoramic view : making an example of the French.