Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures

368 Pages·2012·2.952 MB·English

by  David Warren Sabean, Malina Stefanovska, (eds.)

SPACE AND SELF IN EARLY MODERN
EUROPEAN CULTURES
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SPACE AND SELF IN EARLY
MODERN EUROPEAN
CULTURES
Edited by
David Warren Sabean and
Malina Stefanovska
Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the
UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and
the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
© The Regents of the University of California 2012
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Printed in Canada
ISBN 978–1-4426–4394–9
Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper
with vegetable-based inks.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Space and self in early modern European cultures / edited
by David Warren Sabean and Malina Stefanovska.
(UCLA Clark Memorial Library series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4426-4394-9
1. Self – Europe – History – 17th century. 2. Self – Europe – History –
18th century. 3. Space – Social aspects – Europe – History – 17th century.
4. Space – Social aspects – Europe – History – 18th century. 5. Self in
literature. 6. Self in art. I. Sabean, David Warren II. Stefanovska,
Malina III. Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library series
BF697.S67 2012 155.2'09409032 C2012-901622-5
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the UCLA Center
for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the
Ontario Arts Council.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support of
the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund
for its publishing activities.
T o
Peter Hanns Reill
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Contents
List of Figures xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 3
david warren sabean and malina stefanovska
PART I: HABITAT AND HABITUS
1 At the Study: Notes on the Production of the Scholarly Self 17
gadi algazi
2 From Pictor Philosophus to Homo Oeconomicus:
Renegotiating Social Space in Poussin’s Self-Portrait
of 1649–1650 51
david packwood
3 The Scholar at Work: Habitus and the Identity
of the ‘Learned’ in Eighteenth-Century
France 68
anne c. vila
4 The Eccentric Centre: Selfhood and Sociability
at the Heart of England’s Culture
of Enlightenment Print 96
david s. shields
viii Contents
5 Theatrical Identities and Political Allegories: Fashioning
Subjects through Drama in the Household of
Cardinal Richelieu (1635–1643) 112
déborah blocker
6 Noble Selfhood and the Nature Poetry
of Saint-Amant 134
michael taormina
PART II: PLOTTING THE BODY:
TRAJECTORIES AND PROJECTIONS
7 Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the ‘Inner Self’
in Seventeenth-Century France and England 153
robert dimit
8 Nicole and Hobbes: Materiality, Motion,
and the Passions 165
erec r. koch
9 Loci Theologici: Authority, the Fall, and the
Theology of the Puritan Self 183
frédéric gabriel
10 Exile in the Reformation 200
lee palmer wandel
11 Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early
Modern Dream Narratives 219
andreas bähr
12 Cartography and the
Melancholic Self 239
christopher wild
13 Ingénieurs du Roy, Ingénieur du Moy: Self
and Space in Montaigne and Descartes 258
tom conley
Contents ix
PART III: NEW DIMENSIONS:
INTERSTICES AND INTENSITIES
14 A Taste for the Interstitial ((cid:13382)): Translating
Space from Beijing to London in the 1720s 281
robert batchelor
15 Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann’s ‘Outer Selves’
and the Body without Organs 305
jean-philippe antoine
Contributors 321
Index 327