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Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain /

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This study focuses on the co-evolution of the essay and the mode of literacy it enabled, and the interactive processes of reading, with a new approach to early modern textuality. It shows how the genre served to record, test and disseminate the skills required; and how the essay was adopted as a mec...

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Main Author: Black, Scott (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary Theory.
British literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This study focuses on the co-evolution of the essay and the mode of literacy it enabled, and the interactive processes of reading, with a new approach to early modern textuality. It shows how the genre served to record, test and disseminate the skills required; and how the essay was adopted as a mechanism by various intellectual disciplines.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 193 pages)
ISBN:9780230286641
DOI:10.1057/9780230286641