Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain
| By: | S. Black |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781403999054 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230286641 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2006 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.