Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience by Nick Davis
Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience examines the shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's literary production participates significantly in this broad cultural movement.
Covering key writers of the period including Shakespeare, Donne, Chaucer, Spenser, Langland, Hobbes and Bunyan, Davis begins with an overview of the medieval-early modern privatizing cultural transition. He then goes on to offer an analysis of King Lear, Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, The Winter's Tale, and the first three books of The Fairie Queene, among other texts, considering their treatment of the relation between individual life and the life attributed to the cosmos, the idea of symbolic narrative positing a collective human subject, and the forming of pragmatic relations between individual and group.
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Active Reading
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British Fictions of the Sixties
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Women's Fiction
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Intention and Text
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Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient
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Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel
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Coleridge and German Philosophy
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Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair
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The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London
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Ted Hughes, Class and Violence
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Salman Rushdie and Translation
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Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817
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Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
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Blake and Kierkegaard
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Canonizing Hypertext
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Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008
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Bret Easton Ellis's Controversial Fiction
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Troubling Legacies
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Dickens, Journalism, Music
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Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze
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Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire
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Mapping the Wessex Novel
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Character and Satire in Post War Fiction
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Pastoral Elegy in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
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London Gothic
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The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory
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Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon
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Milton, Evil and Literary History
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Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel
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Religion, Literature and the Imagination
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J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory
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London Narratives
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare
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Beckett and Decay
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Dickens, Christianity and 'The Life of Our Lord'
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Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History
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Mapping World Literature
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Beckett and Ethics
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Joyce and Company
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Doris Lessing
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Melville, Mapping and Globalization
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Revisions of the American Adam
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Male Jealousy
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Fictions of Globalization
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Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441166821 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441166823 |
| Title | Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience |
| Author | Nick Davis |
| Series | Continuum Literary Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2013-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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