The making of the modern self identity and culture in eighteenth-century England / [electronic resource] :
Dror Wahrman.
- Yale University Press, c2004.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 414 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.