Space and Self thus sets the terms for current discussion of these topics and provides new approaches to studying their cultural specificity.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

David Warren Sabean and Malina Stefanovska

PART I  Habitat and Habitus

1. At the Study: Notes on the Production of the Scholarly Self

Gadi Algazi

2. From Pictor Philosophus to Homo Oeconomicus: Renegotiating Social Space in Poussin's Self-Portrait of 1649-50

David Packwood

3. The Scholar at Work: Habitus and the Identity of the ‘Learned’ in Eighteenth-Century France

Anne C. Vila

4. The Eccentric Center: Selfhood and Sociability at the Heart of England's Culture of Enlightenment Print

David S. Shields

5. Theatrical Identities and Political Allegories: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the Household of Cardinal Richelieu (1635–43)

Déborah Blocker

6. Michael Taormina, Noble Selfhood and the Nature Poetry of Saint-Amant

PART II  Plotting the Body: Trajectories and Projections

7. Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the ‘Inner Self’ in Seventeenth-Century France and England

Robert Dimit

8. Nicole and Hobbes: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions

Erec Koch

9. Loci Theologici: Authority, the Fall, and the Theology of the Puritan Self

Frédéric Gabriel

10. Exile in the Reformation

Lee Palmer Wandel

11. Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream Narratives

Andreas Bähr

12. Cartography and the Melancholic Self

Christopher Wild

13. Ingénieurs du Roy, Ingénieur du Moy: Self and Space in Montaigne and Descartes

Tom Conley

PART III  New Dimensions: Interstices and Intensities

14. A Taste for the Interstitial: Translating Space from Beijing to London in the 1720s

Robert Batchelor

15. Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's Outer Selves and the Body without Organs

Jean-Philippe Antoine

Contributors

Index

Edited by David Warren Sabean and Malina Stefanovska