S. Black
Palgrave-Macmillan
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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.
Palgrave-Macmillan
Hardback
208
39022
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.