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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment; 1 The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression; 2 The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten's Peepshow; 3 Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt's Individual; 4 Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre; 5 Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière. |
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6 The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves7 Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant; Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an ""experimental"" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience. |
| Local Note |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Self-perception in art.
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Self-perception in art. |
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Self-knowledge, Theory of -- History.
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Self-knowledge, Theory of. |
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History. |
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Self (Philosophy) -- History.
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Self (Philosophy) |
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European literature -- History and criticism.
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European literature. |
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Europe -- Intellectual life.
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Europe. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Electonic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Braider, Christopher, 1950- Experimental selves. ©2018 1487503687 9781487503680 (OCoLC)1029804370 |
| ISBN |
9781487518509 (electronic book) |
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1487518501 (electronic book) |
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9781487503680 |
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1487503687 |
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