Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience

Author / Editor
Davis, Nick.

Title
Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience

Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Physical Description
viii, 244 pp.

Description
Examines a diverse range of authors from the fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries for their political, philosophical, and scientific perspectives in order to map a movement away from a trust in collective experience and toward a focus on the individual as the source of authentic perception, thought, and feeling. Chapter 5 refers to BD.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess