Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Nick.
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