Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain

Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 1403999058
ISBN-13 : 9781403999054
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Download or read book Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain written by Scott Black and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain traces the co-evolution of the essay and the mode of literacy it enabled. Focusing on the interactive processes of reading captured by the form, Of Essays offers a new approach to early modern textuality. It shows how the genre served to record, test and disseminate the readerly skills required by a developing print culture, and how the essay was adopted as a mechanism of natural science, the public sphere, and the novel.


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