Literate experience : the work of knowing in seventeenth-century English writing / Andrew Barnaby and Lisa J. Schnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnaby, Andrew Thomas.

Contributor:

Schnell, Lisa Jane.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Knowledge, Theory of--England--History--17th century.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626--Influence.

Bacon, Francis.

Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

"Literate Experience argues for the existence of certain shared patterns of intellectual association in the English seventeenth century, patterns that follow the outlines of Bacon's project of epistemological reform. Bacon's project offered a theory of how knowing as a private act could be transformed into a public one, an act related to the creation and maintenance of public authority. The question thus becomes, how did thinkers in the period reimagine civil society as a polity of knowledge? This study traces out a variety of answers to that question, ranging from the Royal Society's communal rhetoric to the work of four literary writers who, in a variety of ways, problematize the notion that political society exists as a community of shared knowledge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-229) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312293518

OCLC:

49031707