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… and David Hume, for whom ‘self’ was a loose compound of fleeting impressions. An epigonic reader of Locke, Edmund Law used the masquerade patterns as a way to explain Locke’s theory, arguing that the word ‘person’ should be understood … in England, 1730-1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture (New York: Garland Publishing, 1984). 5 . Edmund Law, A Defence of Mr. Locke’s Opinion Concerning Personal Identity (Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1769), p. 40. In … Clothes That Wear Us : Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999). Wahrman, Dror, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England …
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