Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain

Download or read book Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain written by Scott Black and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.