Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience

by Nick Davis

Book Overview

Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience examines the shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's literary production participates significantly in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474232825
• ISBN13: 9781474232821
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"