Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain

ebook Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

By S. Black

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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 mechanism by various intellectual disciplines.
Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain