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Of essays and reading in early modern Britain

Part of the Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and cultures series
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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.

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Palgrave Macmillan
023028664X / 9780230286641
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
824.009
03/11/2006
England
English
190 pages
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