Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain
Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain By Scott Black
2006 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 1403999058 | PDF | 1 MB
2006 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 1403999058 | PDF | 1 MB
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.